I can't believe my kid got into X college . . .

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Anonymous wrote:It's one of the top ivies in the country by most measures including admissions ratios, but I'm uncomfortable outing DC.

How would you be outing your DC? There are 8 Ivys and dozens of kids from DC area schools who have gotten in to each of them. No one would be able to tell it was a specific kid being posted about.

Why do you care whether some anonymous poster's kid goes to Columbia or Princeton?

I don't. I just thought it was a weird thing to post since no outing would actually occur. Either post the school or skip the thread.

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Anonymous wrote:11:46 probably referring to Cornell

I'm thinking Penn.

Haha. Wrong again. Nice try, only six more to go, so I'm stopping now. You'll just have to suffer in ignorance.

Ther's an Ivy with a higher rate of admission than U Penn? I didn't know that.

When did Penn start going by U Penn? Or is that a DC thing? I get that it is not to confuse it with penn state. But I grew up in Philly and have several family members that went there and everyone just said Penn - except the old waspy types just called it Pennsylvania.

My brother graduated fom Penn 30 years ago. About 90% of the people I've mentioned it to think I'm talking about PSU. I'm from western PA. I guess the people from Philly can keep it straight.

+1. I grew up about 1 1/2 hours north of Philadelphia, and "Penn" meant Penn State, which is where most people went to college, very few if any in my class went to UPenn.

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DD- University of Phoenix

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Anonymous wrote:William & Mary.

Congratulations.

VA resident?

Top 10%?

Yes to both, we feel like it's like winning the lottery! Yay, in-state tuition!!

That is awesome but I got the sense that UVA and W&M accepted the top 10% of students from the good va high schools around here. Is that far from the truth, in your experience?

I don't know how it works. DC was deferred at UVa, and a friend with lower SAT, really no extracurriculars, but a better GPA got in.

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Duke -- small FA package also!

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Anonymous wrote:11:46 probably referring to Cornell

I'm thinking Penn.

Haha. Wrong again. Nice try, only six more to go, so I'm stopping now. You'll just have to suffer in ignorance.

Ther's an Ivy with a higher rate of admission than U Penn? I didn't know that.

When did Penn start going by U Penn? Or is that a DC thing? I get that it is not to confuse it with penn state. But I grew up in Philly and have several family members that went there and everyone just said Penn - except the old waspy types just called it Pennsylvania.

I also grew up in the Philadelphia area and a good chunk of my HS went to Penn. There were definitely people there who called it U Penn. And I think it also was used on college t-shirts (remember those Absolut shirts). Not that those are authoritative sources or anything. Just sayin' that it is a fairly common term.

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Miller Motte College

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I'm from Philly also. I always called University of Pennsylvania "Penn." And U Penn sounds weird to me, too. The Pennsylvania State University is "Penn State." But, yeah, people always get them confused.

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My Penn champion sweatshirt just says Penn in old sewn on letters . . . .

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Anonymous wrote:Duke -- small FA package also!

Perfect grades? Perfect SATs? Athlete? What was hook?

Congratulations.

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Sunny Brook Community College. It's open enrollment, but it's the thought that counts!

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Anonymous wrote:My Penn champion sweatshirt just says Penn in old sewn on letters . . . .

The sweatshirt I bought at the fancy new bookstore a few years ago just says Penn too. But I'm the PP from north of Philly, and when I talk about it, it's UPenn.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke -- small FA package also!

+1 We were pleasantly surprised (and relieved).

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Anonymous wrote:I'm from Philly also. I always called University of Pennsylvania "Penn." And U Penn sounds weird to me, too. The Pennsylvania State University is "Penn State." But, yeah, people always get them confused.

Yes to this from another Philadelphian with a relative who teaches at Penn. I thought the U Penn evolved when folks got concerned they were being mixed up with Penn State.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm from Philly also. I always called University of Pennsylvania "Penn." And U Penn sounds weird to me, too. The Pennsylvania State University is "Penn State." But, yeah, people always get them confused.

Yes to this from another Philadelphian with a relative who teaches at Penn. I thought the U Penn evolved when folks got concerned they were being mixed up with Penn State.

What's funny is not once in my entire life have I ever heard someone call penn state anything but that - its not like there's some huge confusion going on.

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