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15. Dolt45 did not graduate from the Wharton School of Business with a MBA
Fri Jul 6, 2018, 10:20 PM
Jul 2018

He got an undergraduate degree, a bachelor of economic science, not the master's level that most people who brag about Wharton get. He also was not one of the two in his class that graduated "summa cum laude," the sixteen that graduated " cum laude," or the five that graduated "magna cum laude" - as proven by a copy of the graduation program in the article below.

What is Trump's real record at Wharton?
Updated Feb 19, 2017; Posted Feb 19, 2017

University of Pennsylvania records and documents uncovered by the school's student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, show it's President Trump's academic record that is now in question.

For decades, the national media has reported that Trump graduated "first in his class" at Wharton, often confusing his undergraduate degree with the Ivy League university's top-ranked MBA program.

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In Gwenda Blair's 2001 book, "The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President," she said Trump transferred into Wharton from Fordham University with help from family connections. The president's older brother, Freddy Trump, knew an admissions counselor at Wharton, she said.

That book and some reports in the 1980s claimed Trump didn't graduate first in his class and didn't graduate with honors.

A 1968 commencement program shared Friday by the Daily Pennsylvanian backs that up. It shows that Trump graduated from the undergraduate school of finance and commerce, but he did not graduate at the top of his class or with honors.

More: https://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/02/what_is_trumps_real_record_at.html

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