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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child’s first choice school is Penn. I had mentioned that it would be a reach for him and that usually 1 kid gets in from our school. At some point, I realized that they thought I was referring to Penn State. When I mentioned UPenn was an Ivy League school, they seemed confused. These are Americans. Do people really not know the difference????[/quote]

I have a U Penn degree. Everyone seems to just confuse it my whole life with Penn State, probably because of football giving it a big brand. I've tried saying U Penn, or U of Penn, and still they assume Penn state asking how I liked living in Pittsburgh.

I assume it's the same with WUSTL, everyone assuming you went to UW or GW. No one realizes a Washington U can be outside Washington State or Washington DC.[/quote]

See?  Here we have a Philly Penn grad reporting on people who think Penn State is in Pittsburgh.  Or maybe even that PP thinks Penn State is in Pittsburgh.

Penn State is not in Pittsburgh.  Or any other decent size city.  It has a large university community around it. It's in a rural area.  [/quote]

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