Not knowing the difference between UPenn and Penn State

[Anonymous]

I mix up University of Michigan and MSU all the time. I know they're different schools, but I always forget which is which. I even have a close friend who attended one and it still doesn't help!

[Anonymous]

“The narcissisms of small differences.” It’s a Freudian concept. It’s when people who have a lot in common become overly sensitive or obsessive about small differences and engage those differences as more distinguishing than they actually are. Basically, it’s the sense that someone else is not comprehending a distinction, which - to you- clearly indicates that I/DC is more [intelligent, rounded, refined, legacy, wealthy] than you/your DC because I/we [attend, lived in, belong to, have been accepted to] institution X.

[Anonymous]

DD was rejected from Penn last cycle. The only bright spot was knowing we didn’t have to explain the difference for the next 4 years. 😏

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD was rejected from Penn last cycle. The only bright spot was knowing we didn’t have to explain the difference for the next 4 years. 😏

But did they get into Penn State?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD was rejected from Penn last cycle. The only bright spot was knowing we didn’t have to explain the difference for the next 4 years. 😏

Not having to spend 4 years in Philadelphia is a huge win.

[Anonymous]

UPenn seemed a little odd to me decades ago because it was the only Ivy with a state as its name like many state schools. Even today, my mind has to take an extra moment to process which is which whenever one or the other comes up in conversation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD was rejected from Penn last cycle. The only bright spot was knowing we didn’t have to explain the difference for the next 4 years. 😏

Not having to spend 4 years in Philadelphia is a huge win.

Philly is a great place to go to school, though better for grad school than undergrad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UPenn seemed a little odd to me decades ago because it was the only Ivy with a state as its name like many state schools. Even today, my mind has to take an extra moment to process which is which whenever one or the other comes up in conversation.

UPenn is often deemed faux Ivy. Their own Wharton undergraduates- where midwits tear each other down by sheer toxicity- look askance at fellow students at other departments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The difference between Penn and Harvard is that at Harvard everyone says they go to school “in Boston” because they want you to believe they’re humble, whereas at Penn, people are crass enough to allow themselves to be seen to care about being mixed up with Penn State.

Harvard students don’t go to school in Boston.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What about people that don’t know what Barnard is or that it is an Ivy League school and part of Columbia? This is a weird one too. Almost like a litmus test for your education level.

You just don’t realize how you come off do you?

People who are not in the world of ivy and private schools may not know. That doesn’t make them uneducated. Maybe they aren’t very “worldly” but it also makes you a snob to judge them for it

Worldly? 😆

[Anonymous]

i know that difference-but didnt know purdue is in west lafayette...now kid admitted to Purdue Indy as we both thought thats the main campus....uugh

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The difference between Penn and Harvard is that at Harvard everyone says they go to school “in Boston” because they want you to believe they’re humble, whereas at Penn, people are crass enough to allow themselves to be seen to care about being mixed up with Penn State.

lol no! We say school “in Boston” because people act weird if we mention Harvard. Like the nail salons suddenly charge extra, parents with kids in school start getting obnoxious with their questions about how to get in, parents with older kids who did not get into Harvard get insecure and start bragging about their kids,….IYKYK it’s a PITA.

This is spot on. It's so strange how people think this is braggy when it's literally the opposite. We just don't want yet another awkward conversation.

Signed,

someone who went to college "in Connecticut."

I react differently. WT F , why not say Yale or Harvard? Do you feel so superior as to show how humble you are? You have a predicament but you should know who you are taking to when you say or not say these things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UPenn seemed a little odd to me decades ago because it was the only Ivy with a state as its name like many state schools. Even today, my mind has to take an extra moment to process which is which whenever one or the other comes up in conversation.

UPenn is often deemed faux Ivy. Their own Wharton undergraduates- where midwits tear each other down by sheer toxicity- look askance at fellow students at other departments.

"often deemed" by whom exactly? Where did you even get this from? Who do you think you're speaking for? I've never heard of anyone calling Penn or any other school a "faux Ivy." And I'm a HYP grad myself.

[Anonymous]

Well I learned something today. I had not previously know that College of Charleston is a public school. Does that make me uneducated? Or maybe should we be perhaps rethinking how we measure that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i know that difference-but didnt know purdue is in west lafayette...now kid admitted to Purdue Indy as we both thought thats the main campus....uugh

no way