I was procrastinating on my history paper and fell into a research hole about presidential education. I wanted to know where did trump go to college because it comes up constantly but the details always seemed fuzzy. Here's what I pieced together from actual sources: He enrolled at Fordham University in 1964, which is a Jesuit school in the Bronx.
After two years there, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce (as it was called then) and graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in economics . So far, straightforward. But then I found this—The Daily Pennsylvanian tracked down 74 members of his graduating class and 68 of them had no memory of him at all.
Like zero recollection. One person remembered a brief conversation where young Trump said he wanted to be "the king of New York real estate" which is honestly kind of iconic in retrospect. Another classmate described him as a "loner who kept to himself" and not involved in any activities. So the guy who would become maybe the most famous person in the world was apparently completely forgettable on campus. That's either really funny or really profound, I haven't decided which.
After two years there, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce (as it was called then) and graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in economics . So far, straightforward. But then I found this—The Daily Pennsylvanian tracked down 74 members of his graduating class and 68 of them had no memory of him at all.
Like zero recollection. One person remembered a brief conversation where young Trump said he wanted to be "the king of New York real estate" which is honestly kind of iconic in retrospect. Another classmate described him as a "loner who kept to himself" and not involved in any activities. So the guy who would become maybe the most famous person in the world was apparently completely forgettable on campus. That's either really funny or really profound, I haven't decided which.
