Donald Trump rarely resists an opportunity to remind people that he's a "smart person,", an estimation he frequently flaunts alongside reminders that he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League institution. In particular, Trump has boasted of his matriculation at Wharton, the university's hyper-competitive business school. As it turns out, however, Trump's days of higher education may not have been as distinguished as he has allowed people to believe. While media outlets have spent years repeating the claim (neither made by nor denied by Trump himself) that Trump graduated at the top of the class, archives obtained by a Penn student newspaper dispute the possibility.

As reported by The Daily Pennsylvanian, a list of the 56 students to make the Wharton Dean’s List in 1968 (Trump's graduating year) did not include Trump. Given a reported 366 members of Wharton's 1968 graduating class, Trump's absence from the Dean's List suggests that his performance did not rank him among the top 15% of his peers. There is also no evidence that Trump graduated with academic honors, as the 1968 commencement program lists Donald Trump as a graduate but not as an honoree recipient.

Trump certainly has a complicated relationship with his alma mater, which he attended after transferring from Fordham University. The president has bragged frequently about his time at the school, and his children Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Tiffany all followed his example to attend. But the love Penn feels for him in return is in question, as many students at the college have organized against him since the election.

Penn does not release academic records of alumni beyond basic facts of graduation date, degree, and major, so, absent of involvement from Trump's newly reviled leakers, it is unlikely that the specific details of Trump's student days will ever be known.

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