<p>Please Shifu, timbers, and anyone else to whom this applies, if you’re too thickheaded to understand my attempt to help you, do not apply to Penn.</p>
<p>Penn doesn’t want people with academic credentials. They want smart students who have taken the time to learn about the university and will contribute to the community. I was trying to help teach you about the university and the community. Note that this tidbit isn’t a nuance that you get from visiting campus (like loving Wawa, eating from a cart, or calling buildings nicknames like “steiney-d”) but the most basic fact about the university that you can pick up from reading a single brochure.</p>
<p>I guess you could say this is a case of different opinions, if the group of people whose opinion it is to call the school “Penn” is the official school administration, faculty, and students, and the group of people who choose to call the school “upenn” is uneducated high school students. Penn’s not a “nickname”, it’s official branding.</p>