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The fact-check is about Donald Trump's claim of graduating at the top of his class from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968.
There are verified public facts about where Donald Trump went to school and that he graduated from the Wharton School in 1968, but there are no publicly released, verifiable transcripts or SAT score r...
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...
has repeatedly touted his Wharton education for decades, but the record shows he earned an undergraduate degree from in 1968 — not an MBA — and reporters and historians say his public phrasing has oft...
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...
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’s precise GPA and numeric class rank from the Wharton School are not publicly documented; available archival records and reporting show he graduated “without honors,” which at Wharton imp...