Penn or UPenn?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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I'm probably smart enough to have been accepted to Penn State's main campus back when I was a senior.

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<p>JUST probably? The only thing that wouldn't be guaranteed is getting into the Schreyer Honors College (which does technically boast a higher SAT average than Penn)</p>

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<p>Even though this thread died down 4-5 years ago, I could not help but bring in my 2 cents. I initially called the school UPenn when I was first applying. Then, I began to call it Penn once I saw how much the school liked that name. However, I then looked at the symbol that the school flaunts.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.upenn.edu/webservices/images/logos/penn_fulllogo.gif[/url]”>http://www.upenn.edu/webservices/images/logos/penn_fulllogo.gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I don’t get why they would put the shield, which kind of looks like a Capital U, in front of Penn. Now, I forever see UPenn when I see that symbol. I’m still gonna say Penn when I attend, but that is a really weird symbol.</p>

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<p>^ It’s no more a “U” than are the similarly shaped shields of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, and hundreds of other colleges and universities. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>I think you’re letting your imagination get the best of you. ;)</p>

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<p>to ppl in philly its penn. elsewhere say upenn. to really privy ppl say UP.</p>

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<p>Does it really matter??? I have always known The University of Pennsylvania as Penn not UPenn…The University of California, Berkeley as simply Cal or Berkeley…The University of Oxford as Oxford (it is not Oxford University as many ignorant people think it is)…The University of Cambridge as Cambridge (it is not Cambridge University)…and my alma mater The University of Chicago will always be Chicago NOT UChicago to me or to many of my generation…sound familiar?</p>

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<p>Penn is the official name and was so before Penn State was in existence, as far as I know. Back in the day it was referred to as Pennsylvania and/or Penn so I don’t think it is asking for much to get the name right. UPenn is okay too I guess but it isn’t the traditional name.</p>

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<p>They are both great schools, what’s the difference which is which?</p>

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<p>How do you react to people who don’t know what the University of Pennsylvania is or anything about it? </p>

<p>I’ve had people confuse it with Penn State but also not know its in Philly, not know its an Ivy and not know anything about it. I live in NJ. How does that happen when we live so close?</p>

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<p>The difference of which is which I think comes from the fact that every school kind of has it’s specialty in terms of what it is known for academically. Penn State has multiple campuses, Penn doesn’t, and the list of differences go on so I would say there is an importance in distinction. A choice in school an imply a certain interest.</p>

<p>I don’t mind it too much, I don’t usually correct people but when they ask what school I go to, I say University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and that usually let’s them know it isn’t Penn State. Even with that, they may not know Penn for the wonderful institution that it is but at the end of the day, I’m the one attending and I’m not in the middle of a job/grad school interview so I don’t really care. If the convo continues about education, they usually pick up on the fact it is a really great school.</p>

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<p>Even if you know the difference, most employers don’t. So what? Both are great schools.</p>