<p>Hey, I was wondering, for the why penn? essay, how formal should the name of the school be? Currently, I say the name of the school about 8 times in my essay, and I don’t want to say the University of Pennsylvania so many times. Is it okay to write Penn… or maybe UPenn?</p>
<p>Penn or U of P. I don’t think that people who actually attend refer to it as UPenn.</p>
<p>call it penn, please.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of anyone calling it U of P either.</p>
<p>^ This may have been a “back in the day” thing.</p>
<p>As to the proper nomenclature, I think this in an instance where wikipedia gets it right, although I agree, nobody there refers to it as “UPenn”.</p>
<p>“In addition to Penn, U of P and Pennsylvania, UPenn has come into fairly common usage due to university officials establishing the domain name of the university as “upenn.edu.” Penn has been used by sportswriters for at least a century, e.g. Crowther, Samuel (1905). Rowing and Track Athletics. The Macmillan company, 85. [3]. Official emphasis on Penn began c. 1990 and intensified in 2002 with President Rodin’s “One University” initiative.[4]. The University’s formal branding and usage guidelines [5], [6], [7] specify Penn and the “Penn-University of Pennsylvania” logo but do not explicitly deprecate UPenn or other abbreviations. The recent popularity of UPenn is probably influenced by campus email addresses which use the domain name “upenn.edu,” and possibly by parallels with UMass and UConn (which, unlike UPenn, have official status and are trademarked). Daily Pennsylvanian columnist Jeff Shafer traces the origin of the “upenn” domain name to pre-Internet days, citing SAS computing head Ira Winston as saying that in the early days of email the University chose upenn.csnet, which “mimicked the University of Delaware’s udel.csnet.” Thus the choice of “upenn” was made when computer network names had little public visibility, and before the university decided to emphasize Penn as part of a conscious branding strategy. Shafer says the university studied the feasibility of full conversion to “penn.edu” in 2002 but decided that the costs were too high.”</p>
<p>I wrote UPenn…</p>
<p>Refer to it as University of Pennsylvania the first time you say it, then Penn for any other time.</p>
<p>@NickBarr… thanks… that is what I am currently doing.</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania or Penn. U of P & UPenn are no longer used (except in the web address as noted above).</p>