There was no great mystery. Although it is true, as previously asserted and generally known, that Trump’s family had connections to a friendly admissions officer, it turns out that probably didn’t matter! New research has shown that just about any warm body could get in. The admissions officer who rated Trump said, “At the time more than half of applicants to Penn were accepted, and transfer students such as Donald Trump had an even higher acceptance”
(This is significantly different from today’s admission standards, in which 93% of Penn applicants are rejected!)
As noted in earlier posts:
Trump was a C+ to B student at Fordham, and earned no honors at Wharton, where one of his teachers called him “the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” He never attended grad school, so there’s nothing to offset his mediocre undergrad record. Coincidentally enough, The Donald and I were both at Fordham in 1966, he in the spring, I in the fall of that year. Same university; same calendar year.
As I have mentioned, I will be happy to share and compare our 1966 Fordham report cards, but you can bet with 100% certainly that he would never take up that challenge for any amount under any circumstances!