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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4547308" data-attributes="member: 48469">&quot;Trump has referred to his Wharton degree as ‘super genius stuff.’ An admissions officer recalls it differently.&quot;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-who-often-boasts-of-his-wharton-degree-says-he-was-admitted-to-the-hardest-school-to-get-into-the-college-official-who-reviewed-his-application-recalls-it-differently/2019/07/08/0a4eb414-977a-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-who-often-boasts-of-his-wharton-degree-says-he-was-admitted-to-the-hardest-school-to-get-into-the-college-official-who-reviewed-his-application-recalls-it-differently/2019/07/08/0a4eb414-977a-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html</a>&quot;Trump graduated from Penn in 1968. Before long, a legend was born. A 1973 article in the New York Times said Trump graduated “first in his class” from the Wharton School and then quoted his father as saying, “Donald is the smartest person I know.”The claim that Trump was the top student was repeated in a more widely noticed 1976 profile in the Times, again including his father’s quote about being the “smartest person.” The Times later published stories that questioned whether Trump was a top student at Penn, noting that transcripts are private.In fact, Trump’s name was not among the top honorees <a href="https://archives.upenn.edu/digitized-resources/docs-pubs/commencement-programs/program-1968" target="_blank">at his commencement</a>. Nor was he on the <a href="https://dparchives.library.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/pennsylvania?a=d&amp;d=tdp19681025-01.2.27&amp;e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------" target="_blank">dean’s list</a> his senior year, meaning <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2017/02/trump-academics-at-wharton" target="_blank">he was not among the top 56 students in his graduating class of 366</a>. All that is known for certain is that Trump received at least a 2.0 average, or C, enabling him to graduate. A 4.0 is equivalent to an A.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4547308, member: 48469"] [SIZE=4]"[B]Trump has referred to his Wharton degree as ‘super genius stuff.’ An admissions officer recalls it differently."[/B][/SIZE] [URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-who-often-boasts-of-his-wharton-degree-says-he-was-admitted-to-the-hardest-school-to-get-into-the-college-official-who-reviewed-his-application-recalls-it-differently/2019/07/08/0a4eb414-977a-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html[/URL] "Trump graduated from Penn in 1968. Before long, a legend was born. A 1973 article in the New York Times said Trump graduated “first in his class” from the Wharton School and then quoted his father as saying, “Donald is the smartest person I know.” The claim that Trump was the top student was repeated in a more widely noticed 1976 profile in the Times, again including his father’s quote about being the “smartest person.” The Times later published stories that questioned whether Trump was a top student at Penn, noting that transcripts are private. In fact, Trump’s name was not among the top honorees [URL='https://archives.upenn.edu/digitized-resources/docs-pubs/commencement-programs/program-1968']at his commencement[/URL]. Nor was he on the [URL='https://dparchives.library.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/pennsylvania?a=d&d=tdp19681025-01.2.27&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------']dean’s list[/URL] his senior year, meaning [URL='https://www.thedp.com/article/2017/02/trump-academics-at-wharton']he was not among the top 56 students in his graduating class of 366[/URL]. All that is known for certain is that Trump received at least a 2.0 average, or C, enabling him to graduate. A 4.0 is equivalent to an A." [/QUOTE]

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