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pnwmom

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8. He did graduate from college in 1968, with an undergraduate business degree from Wharton.
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 03:11 AM
Nov 2016

He often implies he got an MBA, a masters, from that business school, but he didn't.

He started out at Fordham as a freshman, and then transferred to Wharton as a junior. So he went there for two years before he graduated in 1968.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/08/28/donald-trump-was-bombastic-even-wharton-business-school/3FO0j1uS5X6S8156yH3YhL/story.html

The brash, blunt, and sometimes bombastic personality that has helped Trump upend the early stages of the 2016 Republican presidential primary campaign — and which has been a hallmark of his business and reality TV entertainment careers — was already in full bloom during his college years, according to more than a dozen Wharton classmates interviewed by the Globe.

“I recognize this person,” said Joseph Cohen, who was in Trump’s tightknit group of real estate students. “He was certainly verbal, and unequivocal. If he had something to say, he said it. Like he says today.”

Calomaris agreed, “The same style, same outspokenness, same braggadocio. It’s quintessentially Don.”

But while Trump frequently boasts that his undergraduate degree from the elite Wharton School demonstrates that he has the brains and knowledge to lead the nation — “like, super genius stuff,’’ in his words — he appears to have left little impression on the school itself, outside a small orbit of fellow students. . . .

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He does not have a degree? mainstreetonce Nov 2016 #1
He is only a High-School graduate! Equinox Moon Nov 2016 #2
He certainly lies about that mainstreetonce Nov 2016 #3
There is something about him going to Wharton College Equinox Moon Nov 2016 #4
He did graduate from college in 1968, with an undergraduate business degree from Wharton. pnwmom Nov 2016 #8
Well maybe he got in easily mainstreetonce Nov 2016 #5
There's still more than 2 months DesertRat Nov 2016 #6
Pence would be worse. In_The_Wind Nov 2016 #7
yep. sad but true rollin74 Nov 2016 #10
Pence SammyWinstonJack Nov 2016 #9
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