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Available reporting shows little public documentation of Donald Trump’s detailed grades, GPA or SAT scores because his schools have not released full transcripts; investigators and journalists have in...
Contemporary reporting and archival materials contradict Donald Trump’s long‑repeated claim that he “graduated first in his class” at Wharton in 1968: a 1968 commencement program and Wharton classmate...
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...
Multiple former Wharton classmates of Donald Trump have publicly commented on his academic performance, and the prevailing theme across reporting is that he did not stand out as a top student—classmat...
The available documentary evidence and reporting do not support ’s repeated claim that he graduated “” at ; contemporaneous Wharton records show he graduated without honors and his name does not appea...
Donald J. Trump transferred from Fordham University to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1966 and graduated from Wharton with a BS in economics in 1968; contemporaneous and later...
A small set of primary, public documents and verified omissions constitute most of the evidence about ’s undergraduate record at the : the university’s public confirmation of his degree, contemporaneo...
Donald J. Trump graduated from the Wharton School in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in economics, but available university records and contemporaneous listings do not show him graduating with hon...
Donald Trump has repeatedly said he attended and graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (often described by him as a “degree” in finance or economics) — a point he has inv...
Contemporaneous public records from the University of Pennsylvania — chiefly the 1968 commencement program and the Wharton Dean’s List published in the student newspaper — show Donald J. Trump graduat...
Donald Trump transferred from Fordham to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a Bachelor of Science in economics in May 1968 . Multiple contemporary and retrospective record...
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...
Donald Trump has repeatedly been described in news coverage and his own statements as having claimed he graduated near the top of his Wharton class; contemporaneous Penn records and multiple reports s...
did graduate from the with a Bachelor of Science in economics in May 1968, and the university confirms date, degree and major but not class rank or grades . Longstanding disputes center not on whether...
A precise official undergraduate GPA for is not publicly available because universities cannot disclose transcripts without the student's consent and Trump has long resisted release of his records, in...
Multiple reliable profiles and university summaries state Donald Trump began college at Fordham University (1964–1966) and then transferred to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, whe...
Contemporary reporting and archival checks show Donald Trump graduated from Wharton in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in economics, but multiple fact-checking accounts and university-archival lists c...
Available reporting shows there are contemporaneous Penn sources (commencement programs, alumni databases and student newspapers) and later media investigations that list or discuss the University of ...
Donald Trump did publicly state that he graduated from the Wharton School and repeatedly invoked a Wharton credential as evidence of his business acumen; university records and multiple reporting conf...
contain direct, contemporaneous evidence for and honor rolls: a digitized Program and institutional record collections (including the Wharton Office of the Dean records) are catalogued and available t...