<p>I’m actually a Penn senior and just take my word for it an entire thread bickering over whether it’s “Penn” or “UPenn” is kinda ridiculous… The simple answer is that on the Penn campus it’s pretty much unequivocably referred to as “Penn,” but when you’re referring to it in any case where it could conceivably be confused with Penn State, refer to it as UPenn… At the end of the day no one here really cares so long as we’re not mixed up with Penn State and it’s realized that we’re not them, and I’d be shocked if it made any difference to your application at all…</p>