FOR years Donald Trump has bragged about his alma mater, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, however, questions still linger about his presence at the Ivy League institution.
The former president recently boasted about the school while facing Vice President Kamala Harris for their first debate since she became the nominee for the Democratic Party.
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“I went to the Wharton School of Finance and many of those professors think my plan is a brilliant plan,” Trump said while discussing his economic policies.
“It’s a great plan.”
Trump said his plans would bring up America’s worth and value as a country.
In 1964, Trump attended Fordham University in the Bronx, New York, however, he transferred to the Wharton School two years later.
He graduated in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in economics.
In the decades since, Trump has touted his attendance at the school, then known as the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, as proof of his intelligence.
He has often called it “the hardest school to get into, the best school in the world,” describing it as “super genius stuff.”
However, Trump has never released records showing how he got into the school or his academic performance when he was there.
James Nolan, who worked at the University of Pennsylvania‘s admissions office in 1966, told The Washington Post a detailed account of Trump’s admission process.
Nolan told the outlet in 2019 that he was “sure” the Trump family hoped he would attend Wharton and his application was approved by Nolan’s boss, who is no longer alive.
Nolan couldn’t say whether the decision was decisive or came as a result of an inside connection by the prestigious Trump family.
At the time, Nolan said that more than half of Penn applicants were accepted into the school with transfer students, such as Trump, were given a higher acceptance rate based on their previous college experience.
Data on the acceptance rate for the University of Pennsylvania in the 1960s isn’t available, however, in the 1980s, the rate was “slightly greater than 40%,” according to the school’s website.
At the time of writing, the school has an acceptance rate of 7%, according to the US News & World Report.
“It was not very difficult,” Nolan said of Trump’s enrollment.
“I certainly was not struck by any sense that I’m sitting before a genius. Certainly not a super genius.”
FIXER CONFESSES
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and so-called fixer, told Congress back in 2019 that his boss demanded that he send threatening letters to his alma maters if they released his transcripts.
“I’m talking about a man who declares himself brilliant but directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores,” Cohen told the House Oversight Committee.
One of the letters was sent to Fordham University in May 2015 – a month before Trump announced his presidential campaign.
The letter was addressed to the school’s then-president, Reverand Joseph M. McShane.
“As I am sure you are aware, pursuant to applicable law, including the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act…the release or disclosure, in any form, of such records (or any information contained in such records) to any third party without my client’s prior written authorization is expressly prohibited by law,” the letter read.
“We will hold your institution liable to the fullest extent of the law including damages and criminality.”
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