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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQuestions linger about Trump's academic record at Wharton
President Trump has spoken frequently about his undergraduate success at Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania's top-notch business school.
But while claims of Trump's academic prowess at the Ivy League school have been around for decades, questions about how strong his record actually was continue to swirl.
The 1968 Wharton graduate's name does not appear in a report of dean's list students from that year or among students who graduated with honors, according to records from the university and its student newspaper.
Claims that Trump was a top student at Wharton appear to have first surfaced in 1973, when a New York Times profile reported that he graduated first in his class. No attribution was given for that statement. Another early Times profile, in 1976, also said he was first in his class, and the assertion has been repeated many times in the decades since.
Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/Questions-linger-Donald-Trump-academic-record-Wharton.html
[font color=330099]Is anyone surprised that he lied?[/font]
global1
(25,270 posts)it is under audit. (sarcasm)
jaxind
(1,074 posts)I have asked many times here on DU that when tRUMP demanded Obama for his birth certificate that Obama should have demanded for tRUMP's high school and college transcripts. For all we know, his high school grades were so low that he couldn't have gotten into UPENN without his dad's money or influence. And I bet he did just as poorly on his grades at UPENN as well!
tblue37
(65,487 posts)BSdetect
(8,999 posts)He fought through bushes with a gammy leg.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Shameless self-promoter.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)fierywoman
(7,694 posts)to other people to have taken his exams and written his papers for him?
TexasTowelie
(112,417 posts)With all of his money he should have been able to afford to pay a few people enough to graduate with honors instead of sliding by without distinction. I hope that those people collected their money up front since he probably stiffed them otherwise.