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Wharton must "bigly" rue the day that they had the "indiscrepancy" to allow (Original Post) Motley13 Sep 2016 OP
I am sure there was a large donation from Fred and then from Donald redstatebluegirl Sep 2016 #1
This article is interesting: Warren DeMontague Sep 2016 #3
For one thing, he went for 2 years undergrad; didn't get an MBA from there. Warren DeMontague Sep 2016 #2
Aaaand Wharton suddenly achieves community college status. smirkymonkey Sep 2016 #4

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3. This article is interesting:
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 04:37 PM
Sep 2016
http://www.thedp.com/article/2015/08/donald-trump-wharton-classmates


Another biographer, Gwenda Blair, wrote in 2001 that Trump was admitted to Wharton on a special favor from a “friendly” admissions officer. The officer had known Trump’s older brother, Freddy.

Trump’s classmates doubt that the real estate mogul was an academic powerhouse.

“He was not in any kind of leadership. I certainly doubt he was the smartest guy in the class,” said Steve Perelman, a 1968 Wharton classmate and a former Daily Pennsylvanian news editor.

Some classmates speculated that Trump skipped class, others that he commuted to New York on weekends.
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