When I graduated at the top of the bottom half of my prestigious New England prep school in 1968 I was told that my grades weren’t good enough to get into any of the Ivy League schools EXCEPT...
...U. of Penn had this Wharton School of Finance and Commerce that was EASIER to get into and that I could transfer into the regular U. of Penn after a year if I didn’t want to get a business undergraduate degree to become a CPA.
That is what I did. I applied to Wharton undergrad and got in arriving in the fall of that fateful year, 1968, just after The Donald left.
Yes, Trump is hyping the Wharton name to imply he has a Wharton MBA. We all knew that as Wharton undergrads we were scum and that the “real” Wharton was the Wharton MBA program to which most of us were unlikely to gain admission.
As it happened, seventeen years later I used my Wharton credits to obtain my Florida CPA under their program where you could get a CPA with 150 hours of undergraduate and graduate business credits earned in graduate studies at Temple U. and NOVA U. in Florida.
Sounds like you have very diverse educational back ground and great perseverance. Thanks for sharing that perspective on Wharton.