<p>In my Why Penn essay, can I use Penn as an abreviation or should it be UPenn or should I not appreviate the school's name at all
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should I write the optional essay...or is it really..optional, cause i can't think of anything that woudn't be repeated cause they do already have like 4 essays/short answers</p>
<p>Penn/full name (you should change it up if you use the name several times) ...and i would do the optional essay anyway.</p>
<p>first time i mentioned the school i used the full name, university of pennsylvania, after that i stuck to penn. It's not really a colloquialism, all the faculty call the school "Penn" anyways.</p>
<p>The question itself uses "Penn" so I'd assume that's alright.</p>
<p>alternate between the full university of pennsylvania and Penn. Never upenn. Thats just tacky</p>
<p>You should never ever use UPenn.</p>
<p>You can always use Penn - don't think of it as an abbreviation. It's a genuine renaming brought on by the rebranding efforts. </p>
<p>Also, it's The Wharton School. Not the wharton school of business, and not the wharton school of finance (not anymore, at least, mr trump). </p>
<p>Sorry to beat the dead horse, but there's no greater giveaway that someone has no knowledge about the school than to call it UPenn - that phrase should only be uttered when writing email addresses or websites (which is where it comes from).</p>