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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...
Public records and reporting show no direct, documented proof that Fred Trump’s donations secured Donald Trump’s admission to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School; contemporaneous accounts ...
Donald Trump’s transfer from Fordham to the Wharton School in the mid-1960s is widely reported to have been aided by a personal connection — an admissions officer, James A. Nolan, who had ties to the ...
Donald Trump transferred from Fordham University to the University of Pennsylvania to enroll in the Wharton School because he sought a business education he considered a better fit for his goals and w...
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...
Wharton in the late 1960s admitted a far higher share of applicants than today: contemporaneous reporting about mid‑1960s admissions says the school “accepted more than half of its applicants,” and a ...
Donald Trump began college at Fordham University in 1964 and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School as a junior, graduating with a B.S. in economics in 1968 . Contemporary acco...
Contemporary sources show Donald Trump transferred from Fordham to Wharton in 1966 and graduated in 1968; firsthand accounts and later Wharton materials give a picture of transfer rules today but do n...
Available reporting indicates that Wharton’s admissions in the mid-1960s were far less selective by acceptance-rate standards than today — “more than half” of applicants were admitted in that era, acc...
Contemporary reporting and multiple university and media accounts agree that Donald J. Trump began college at Fordham University, transferred to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a...
Available reporting does not find evidence that Fred Trump (Donald Trump’s father) made donations to the University of Pennsylvania that were explicitly tied to securing Donald Trump’s admission; univ...
Contemporary reporting says Donald Trump transferred from Fordham to Wharton in 1966 and graduated from Wharton in 1968; multiple accounts assert his transfer was aided by a family connection and an a...
Available sources say Donald J. Trump transferred from Fordham to Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania in 1966 and graduated in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in a business/economics-related...
Donald Trump transferred from Fordham University to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in the mid-1960s; contemporary reporting and later fact-checks report and a desire for a more p...
Donald Trump consistently presents himself as a Wharton-educated business authority, but official University of Pennsylvania records and contemporaneous evidence are limited and partly contradictory, ...
Wharton does not publish its internal verification practices publicly in the provided materials, and contemporary reporting about Donald Trump’s Wharton record highlights disputes over admissions and ...