A former admissions official at the University of Pennsylvania contradicted President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE’s claim that his alma mater was “the hardest school to get into” in an interview with The Washington Post.

Trump graduated from the university’s Wharton School of Finance, which he has touted as “the hardest school to get into, the best school in the world” and “super genius stuff,” according to the Post.

But former admissions official James Nolan told the Post that in 1966, more than half of the applicants to Penn were accepted and that transfer students such as Trump, who transferred from Fordham University, had an even higher acceptance rate.

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Nolan described getting into the university at the time Trump was a student as “not very difficult.”

Nolan added that Trump’s older brother, Fred Trump Jr., had reached out to arrange an interview for Trump. Nolan was an old friend of Fred Trump Jr., who had applied to the university earlier but failed to get in.

When Trump arrived at Penn for the interview with Nolan, he was accompanied by his father, Fred Trump Sr., according to the Post.

The Post noted that while the children of wealthy or politically connected families were often accepted ahead of other applicants during this time period, particularly following a major donation, there is no evidence Fred Trump Sr. made any such donation.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.