My mom works at a hospital; is it a great feeling when I meet one of her colleagues and get to say I go to Penn and they're highly impressed? Uh, yeah, it never gets old. Did it feel great when the oral surgeon I assisted introduced me to all of his dentist and surgeon colleagues throughout the semester and without fail said/bragged to them that I go to Penn? 100%. The whole "no one cares about the Penn name" is dramatic nonsense.