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Heres What The Wharton School Of Business Really Thinks Of Donald Trump
Trump came to Wharton in 1966 as a 20-year-old transfer student from Fordham, enrolling as an undergraduate, not an MBA candidate (the MBA program is more exclusive), and flush with $2 million loaned to him by his father.
While obviously ambitious — “I’m going to be the king of New York real estate,” Trump told one professor — he passed through West Philadelphia without leaving a mark. The Boston Globe interviewed a number of his classmates and concluded that Trump “spoke up a lot but rarely shined in class” and “barely participated in campus activities.” He drove a green convertible and used aliases to buy and flip properties in the city.
It’s unclear what Trump took away from his time at Wharton, besides a sense of validation from being included in a group of “the smartest people.” He told the Globe that “one of the things it does is it gives you confidence... When you come out, you feel good about yourself.” (In a speech at last month’s Republican National Convention, his eldest son, Donald Jr., himself a Wharton graduate, said that Trump always “hung out with the guys on construction sites” and “valued their opinions as much, and often more, than the guys from Harvard and Wharton, locked away in offices away from the real work.” The anti-elitist swipe at the school was unexpected, to say the least, since Trump’s constant boasting about his Wharton education is explicitly elitist.)
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There’s another possible explanation for Wharton’s discomfort with the Trump campaign: Trump is simply bad for the brand.
While obviously ambitious — “I’m going to be the king of New York real estate,” Trump told one professor — he passed through West Philadelphia without leaving a mark. The Boston Globe interviewed a number of his classmates and concluded that Trump “spoke up a lot but rarely shined in class” and “barely participated in campus activities.” He drove a green convertible and used aliases to buy and flip properties in the city.
It’s unclear what Trump took away from his time at Wharton, besides a sense of validation from being included in a group of “the smartest people.” He told the Globe that “one of the things it does is it gives you confidence... When you come out, you feel good about yourself.” (In a speech at last month’s Republican National Convention, his eldest son, Donald Jr., himself a Wharton graduate, said that Trump always “hung out with the guys on construction sites” and “valued their opinions as much, and often more, than the guys from Harvard and Wharton, locked away in offices away from the real work.” The anti-elitist swipe at the school was unexpected, to say the least, since Trump’s constant boasting about his Wharton education is explicitly elitist.)
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There’s another possible explanation for Wharton’s discomfort with the Trump campaign: Trump is simply bad for the brand.
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No offense, but you shouldn't need to authorize some 3rd party app to get into your twitter account to read a HuffPo article. 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wharton-donald-trump_us_57b2371be4b0a8e15024e6b8
