<p>Okay, this is kind of off-topic, but I had an argument today (lame, I know) with my friends about whether University of Pennsylvania was called Penn or UPenn.</p>
<p>The didn’t believe me when I said it was PENN, not UPenn… so do you guys know of any articles or something where it says “University of Pennsylvania is called PENN!”?</p>
<p>Thanks… haha.</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>try just abt all their paraphernalia (catalogues, apparel, whatev)</p>
<p>Lee Stetson: "Hello, this is Lee Stetson, Dean of Admissions at the University of Pennsylvania. Just for everybody's information, Penn does not refer to itself as UPenn. I look forward to trying to answer as many questions as I can given the limited time that we have."</p>
<p>Why do people write PENN? Does it really have to be in all caps? Just Penn is fine.</p>
<p>lol like its an acronym or something.
"i wanna go to U.P.E.N.N. !!!!!"</p>
<p>People say UPenn to distinguish it from the less prestigious Penn State...</p>
<p>No they don't. You are just misinformed</p>
<p>when i was there this summer for a program they gave me a lanyard that says upenn. its not a big deal what its called, everyone will still think youre talking about penn state anyway.
Technically I think its Penn.</p>
<p>my mom worked there as an asst. prof. for over ten years.
its penn.</p>
<p>my gf who goes to penn used to call it upenn wen she was applyin and now calls it penn. she says everyone there calls it penn.</p>
<p>I hate when people confuse it with Penn State...I always have to explain "No, the University of Pennsylvania...it's different"</p>
<p>I called it Penn until I found out that there was a Penn State that also called itself Penn, so I started calling it UPenn. </p>
<p>It's officially Penn, though. My cousin goes there and she calls it Penn.</p>
<p>Penn State never calls itself Penn, it's always Penn State or PSU, in part because they realize that Penn has dibs on the name Penn.</p>
<p>Sadly, the name UPenn is merely a contrivance for those who wish to make the name more distinctive from that of the state school and prevent people instinctively adding the 'state' when they hear Penn. Virtually everyone here calls it Penn, UPenn is only brought out when talking to people outside of the school.</p>
<p>one of the reasons why "upenn" is popular is because locally penn is also referred to as the "u of penn", hence the shortened version's ubiquity...</p>
<p>i'm still amused at how a family friend heard that i go to penn and said "wow, that's a great value"</p>
<p>Wow. haha.. thanks, everybody.</p>
<p>Um, yea... I only capitalized Penn because I wanted to stress it. <em>shrugs</em></p>
<p>Anyway, now I just have to convince my friends. hehe.</p>
<p>i personally say "university of pennsylvania" if anyone asks where i want to go to school, because i think that "u penn" is wrong, and that "penn" will be incorrectly interpreted as penn state.</p>
<p>even among official penn staff, use is inconsistent:</p>
<p>quoted from an email i just received (i'm a uphs employee):</p>
<p>"If you are one of the 18,000 UPHS & UPENN staff that have not yet participated in Penn’s Way, we encourage you to consider making a pledge today at <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennsway.">www.upenn.edu/pennsway.</a>"</p>
<p>and that's signed by the ceo of uphs / dean of the medical school.</p>
<p>(note: uphs stands for university of pennsylvania health system, which is comprised of penn's 3 hospitals and associated health network)</p>
<p>The school should really just change its name to Wharton University. It would save a lot of hassle.</p>
<p>^ -_-
not funny. </p>
<p>as of now, im voting for hogwharton.</p>
<p>In Mexico everyone knows Wharton, some know UPenn, and no one knows Penn or even University of Pennsylvania... I just say Wharton.</p>