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<p>Even that doesn’t make sense, given the population of California, Texas and Florida, which are outside a 2-hour plane window.</p>
<p>Well, I heard that 90% of Canada’s population lives in the southern 10% of the country.</p>
<p>(Fun facts to know and tell.) :)</p>
<p>^I didn’t know that. Interesting. That makes me think 90% of their country must be inhabitable either too cold or they are made of lakes?</p>
<p>Well, the Canada factoid makes intuitive sense, if you look at the country and where their major population centers are. The Philly one doesn’t even make intuitive sense.</p>
<p>^Unless they didn’t have the intuitive sense. Did they know that they were saying more than half of the US population is in their thier backyard? Had they known it, they would have stopped even if it’s in their script.</p>
<p>Then that doesn’t reflect well on them (or more accurately, who they hired to design the brochure). Bclintonk is absolutely right here; you expect better from a top university.</p>
<p>Imagine if a similar brochure gaffe had occurred in a brochure put out by East Bumblebranch State U, Nowheresville Branch. Everyone on CC would be smirking as to how stupid they were. Well, don’t give Penn a free pass. And Penn is one of my sentimental favorite schools.</p>
<p>Running with Schmaltz’s “the most convoluted explanation is usually the correct one” theory, here we have another possibility.</p>
<p>The distribution of quakers in the United States of course. Quaker parrots, that is. Says here there are a good number of them in the Northeast. [Quaker</a> Parrot Information](<a href=“http://www.birdtricks.com/Quaker-Parrot/quaker-parrot-info.html]Quaker”>http://www.birdtricks.com/Quaker-Parrot/quaker-parrot-info.html)</p>
<p>So, how many miles per hour do quakers fly anyway?</p>
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<p>PG - I don’t know. Maybe we need to be realistic in our expectation. There are dumb people everywhere including in the Ivies. They may have less, not none.</p>
<p>Yes, this mistake should have been caught, but worse things happen. Back when I was at the University of Wisconsin, diplomas were issued with the state’s name misspelled. </p>
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<p>It is noteworthy that no one noticed (or at least no one said anything) for six months. So, I am going to cut the (very small number of) people involved in the Penn mistake some slack.</p>
<p>This is just a good opportunity for a bit of silliness. :-)</p>
<p>The key thing is to get it right on the admissions acceptance distribution list, and more than one university has had a hiccup on that as I recall, groan.</p>
<p>“Imagine if a similar brochure gaffe had occurred in a brochure put out by East Bumblebranch State U, Nowheresville Branch.”</p>
<p>Forget EBSU-NB…just imagine the lock-jawed guffaws in Long Island country clubs if this had been Cornell.</p>
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But Penn is a lesser Ivy.</p>
<p>“But Penn is a lesser Ivy.” </p>
<p>True, but even the lesser Ivies have enough HYP grads among their faculties and administations to ensure that the schools could avoid grotesque geographical errors. However, we should cut them some slack, as how could the HYP grads at Penn be expected to be familiar with the areas within the 2-hour radius that are not in the Washington-NYC-Boston corridor?</p>
<p>Lee Stetson must be smiling proudly! :)</p>
<p>The center of the hemisphere, N-S and E-W, is near Wausau, WI as long as so much trivia is floating around. Only 4 spots like it in the world- 2 in an ocean and the other in China. (Hint- think 45-45). Just to move away from east coast centrism.</p>
<p>So perhaps that explains the location of PJ20.</p>
<p>As long as this has turned into Fun Geography Facts to Know and Tell, how’s about this one: Detroit is farther east than Atlanta.</p>
<p>^But when they route a flight from Cincinnati through Detroit instead of Atlanta it seems so much farther west!</p>
<p>^ And if you fly past California and the Pacific Ocean you go to the far east!</p>
<p>Here’s another fun geography fact: Ann Arbor is closer to Washington, DC (522 mi) than it is to Ironwood, MI (590 mi) at the western end of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. </p>
<p>And Washington, DC is closer to Oberlin (397 mi) than it is to Amherst (400 mi), Brown (406 mi), Harvard (447 mi), Middlebury (482 mi), Dartmouth (499 mi), and Bowdoin (576 mi).</p>
<p>Pittsburgh is closer to Ann Arbor (283 mi) than it is to Philadelphia (304 mi).</p>
<p>Buffalo is closer to Ann Arbor (301 mi) than it is to New York City (374 mi).</p>