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 ==Alumni==
 Wharton alumni live in West Virginia and spend their time trolling WikiCU.  Meanwhile, they put their world-class education to good use by making statements such as "[Penn is] A school that is [sic] scores better than Columbia will ever be." <ref>http://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=University_of_Pennsylvania&oldid=31808#Characteristics</ref>
 ==Self-Aggrandizing Penn Myths==

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 *"Popped-collar wearers who are so cheerful that they almost convince us they're not disappointed about getting wait-listed at Yale."<ref>http://www.observer.com/2010/slideshow/125504/university-pennsylvania</ref>
 *Given to writing [[user:Chocolate|gibberish]] on wikicu.
 *Hordes of alumni who squander their lives away attempting to make clear to every single person they speak with that they attended an Ivy League school, when we all know they went to [[Penn State]]
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 *Given to writing [[user:Chocolate|gibberish]] on wikicu.
 *Hordes of alumni who squander their lives away attempting to make clear to every single person they speak with that they attended an Ivy League school, when we all know they went to [[Penn State]]
-*Deep insecurity over prestige, manifested in Penn grad students literally studying their school's prestige relative to other Ivy League institutions and attempting to place Columbia on the same level.<ref>http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9026549/</ref>
+*Deep insecurity over prestige, manifested in Penn grad students literally publishing dissertations concerning their school's prestige relative to other Ivy League institutions and attempting to place Columbia on the same level.<ref>http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9026549/</ref>
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 *Given to writing [[user:Chocolate|gibberish]] on wikicu.
 *Hordes of alumni who squander their lives away attempting to make clear to every single person they speak with that they attended an Ivy League school, when we all know they went to [[Penn State]]
 ==Alumni==

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-[[Image:Penn state old main summer.jpg|right|thumb|Penn's not-all-that-historic State College, PA campus]]
+[[Image:Penn state old main summer.jpg|right|thumb|240px|Penn's not-all-that-historic State College, PA campus]]
 The '''University of Pennsylvania''' is an [[Ivy League]] university, to everyone's surprise. It's usually known as '''UPenn''', though they prefer '''Penn''', since the former makes them sound too much like a state school, and the confusion with '''Penn State''' is bad enough for them already.

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 == Characteristics ==
+[[Image:NotPennState.jpg|thumb|240px|A typical UPenn public awareness campaign]]
 *Recruited jocks
 *Fanatically spirited fans of jocks

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 *Located in a boring, rundown, unsafe neighborhood in [[Philly]], of all places
 *Lack of many famous/interesting alumni
 *Superfluity of alumni in finance (mainly from Wharton) who shovel large amounts of cash at the school, allowing it to cling to the ridiculous pretense that it deserves its [[US News rankings|US News ranking]])
 *A failed attempt to brand the undergrad business school as an entity superior to Penn's college and to the rest of the Ivy League (e.g., T-shirts that say "[[Harvard]], because not everyone can get into Wharton")

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 *A marching band that tries [http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/pennband/ wayyy too hard].
 *People from [[Long Island]]
-*A deep-seated sensitivity to being confused with [[Penn State.]]<ref>[http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/11/penn-service-announcement-its-not-penn-state/44753/ A Penn Service Announcement: It's Not Penn State - The Atlantic Wire]</ref>
+*A deep-seated sensitivity to being confused with [[Penn State]]<ref>[http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/11/penn-service-announcement-its-not-penn-state/44753/ A Penn Service Announcement: It's Not Penn State - The Atlantic Wire]</ref>
 *Located in a boring, rundown, unsafe neighborhood in [[Philly]], of all places
 *Lack of many famous/interesting alumni

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 *"Sometimes, being confused as a state school has its advantages."
 *"Penn, despite being one of only eight Ivy League universities, is often considered a state school due to its name, Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School David Reibstein said."
 == References ==
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 [[Category:Universities]]