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Donald Trump attended Fordham University for two years (ending spring 1966) before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where he completed a B.S. in economics in 1968 . Rep...
Kelley School of Business consistently performs at the top of U.S. rankings for its online MBA while its undergraduate program sits comfortably in the U.S. top 10 and the full‑time MBA hovers in the U...
Multiple contemporary accounts trace the remark “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had” to a close friend’s recollection of late Wharton marketing professor William T. Kelley, as rep...
Donald J. Trump earned a Bachelor of Science in economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1968 after spending two years at Fordham University and then transferring to Wharton a...
Multiple long-standing accounts say Wharton marketing professor William T. Kelley told his friend Frank DiPrima that “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had,” a line carried in outlet...
Donald J. Trump earned a Bachelor of Science in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in May 1968, a fact repeatedly stated in university and media accounts...
that paid someone to take the SAT for him originates with his niece ’s 2020 book and audio recordings she provided to reporters; beyond her account and excerpts of family recordings, there is no publi...
graduated from the in 1968 with a bachelor’s degree, but public records tied to that commencement do not show him graduating with honors and there is no publicly available transcript documenting his c...
Fairfield University’s Charles F. Dolan School of Business shows a pattern of strong specialty and regional performance alongside modest overall graduate-program placements: it ranks notably high in u...
There is no credible reporting showing that Donald Trump publicly called a student "the dumbest"; instead the widely circulated phrase in media and social posts—“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn s...
Contemporary reporting and archival records show Donald Trump received a Bachelor of Science in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in May 1968, but available contempor...
A widely repeated anecdote holds that William T. Kelley, a longtime Wharton marketing professor, called Donald J. Trump “the dumbest goddamn student I ever had,” a claim traced almost entirely to Fran...
No available sources explicitly state a formal Wharton policy in the 1960s–1970s that required SAT scores from transfer applicants from Fordham; contemporary accounts about notable transfers (e.g., Do...
Wharton’s undergraduate admits consistently post very high SATs — multiple outlets report averages around 1528–1532 and ranges commonly cited near 1480–1570 — and analysts say scores remain an importa...
Donald J. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics, a fact repeated across multiple contemporary profiles an...
Chinese students in U.S. universities predominantly concentrate in , though the balance shifts by degree level and data source; graduate-level Chinese enrollment is particularly heavy in business (MBA...
did not graduate from the at the ; contemporary archival records from Penn’s 1968 commencement and Dean’s List do not include his name among honor graduates or the top 15 percent of the class . Longst...
was a long‑time marketing professor and author whose close friend, , repeatedly reported that Kelley called “,” a claim widely reprinted in the press . That provenance — consistent repetition by a fri...
Kelley’s strong specialty rankings — with multiple undergraduate specialties in the U.S. News top 10 — correlate with high measurable outcomes: near-universal internship participation, very high place...
No sourced reporting in the materials you provided says William T. Kelley testified against Donald Trump in any court case; all items recount Kelley’s alleged classroom comment that “Donald Trump was ...