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To: john drake
Actually, it was an undergraduate degree in business at the Wharton School, part of ivy league UPenn. I just read an article about his years there. It claimed that he is is not remembered by very many people. If true, it could be because he was a transfer student in his third year and then spent weekends in NY city already working in the real estate development business.

Perhaps he had to take extra required courses that he hadn't had already. I would like to see the media pundits who attack his academic credentials take the math / analytic type classes required for a business degree.

Maybe because he didn't drink, smoke or do drugs he wasn't much interested in the college party scene of the late 60's.

44 posted on 03/01/2017 3:23:04 PM PST by Freee-dame (Best election ever.)
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To: Freee-dame
I just read an article about his years there. It claimed that he is not remembered by very many people. If true, it could be because he was a transfer student in his third year and then spent weekends in NY city already working in the real estate development business.

He was a transfer student, lived off campus, and didn't have to take the core courses that everybody takes in the freshman or sophomore year (though he did take intro econ there). Similar to the last president in that way. And yes, he was already working for his father and more interested in doing practical things than in course work.

Candice Bergen, though, does remember him.

52 posted on 03/01/2017 3:37:23 PM PST by x
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To: Freee-dame

...or molesting young boys Sandusky style.

I attended a NYC female college in the 70s. Many of the girls dated the young Trump through dances given with Yale/Harvard/Columbia and other Ivy Leagues. The reports I got back were that he was a somewhat boring young man. Obviously, hiding himself under a bushel - but may explain why Wharton doesn’t have strong memories of him.

Columbia doesn’t even have a registration of Obama!


53 posted on 03/01/2017 3:40:33 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Freee-dame

Thanks for the additional research and clarification on his schooling. I’ve worked with several professionals from both of those schools, and they’re very, very smart. My business degree required several economics, finance and accounting courses, along with advanced algebra, calculus and quantitative methods (statistics). Not fun but no slouches in those classes either. Yep, I agree with your last comment as well, he was raised right and he was determined to turn his father’s real estate business into an empire. And he accomplished that. No one can argue otherwise.


68 posted on 03/01/2017 5:16:38 PM PST by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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