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No - while Fordham University might have considered Trump’s SAT, Trump transferred from Fordham University (in the Bronx) - which would have considered his Fordham record. But it should be remembered that Wharton wasn’t nearly as difficult to get into in the mid-’60s as it is today. Back then Penn was accepting 40 percent of all applicants, as opposed to its current cutthroat acceptance rate of seven percent. Not surprisingly, Trump remembers it differently. “I got in quickly and easily,” he told the Boston Globe in 2015. “And it’s one of the hardest schools to get into in the country — always has been.”Penn has never had Trump deliver a commencement speech or conferred an honorary degree on him. In the wake of his election, Penn tour guides were discouraged from bringing up the T-word and issued simple instructions for handling questions about Trump’s tenure at Penn: Keep it short and sweet — “Yes, he graduated from Wharton in 1968” — and leave it at that. Tell Penn you’re writing an article about Donald Trump’s time there, and you’ll get the academic version of name, rank and serial number: “Donald J. Trump earned a B.S. in real estate, which was awarded on May 20, 1968,” says Ron Ozio, Penn’s director of media relations, declining my request for an interview. Which is peculiar, given that most universities make a lot of marketing hay out of an alumnus in the White House — and Trump is Penn’s first.And also remember that while it’s rare for a professor to disparage the intelligence of a student, according to attorney Frank DiPrima, who was close friends with professor William T. Kelley for 47 years, the prof made an exception for Donald Trump, at least in private. “He must have told me that 100 times over the course of 30 years,” says DiPrima, who has been practicing law since 1963 and has served as in-house counsel for entities including the Federal Trade Commission and Playboy Enterprises. “I remember the inflection of his voice when he said it: ‘Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!’” He would say that [Trump] came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything, that he was arrogant and he wasn’t there to learn.” Kelley, who passed away in 2011 at age 94, taught marketing at Wharton for 31 years, retiring in 1982.As Trump admitted in The Art of the Deal, all he got out of Wharton was bragging rights: “In my opinion, that degree doesn’t prove very much, but a lot of people I do business with take it very seriously, and it’s considered very prestigious. So all things considered, I’m glad I went to Wharton.”

Here’s a Harvard example;“Harvard SAT ScoresBY RITA KREIG ON DECEMBER 18, 2013 IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS, HIGH SCHOOL LIFE, SAT, SAT SCORESUpdate: This post contains data based on Harvard’s classes of 2018 and 2019. (October 27, 2015)So You Want to Go to Harvard…You dream of singing the fight song as the Harvard Crimson thrash Yale at Harvard Stadium. You want to join the ranks of such notable alumni as FDR, Bill Gates, and Conan O’Brien. Maybe you’ll even get to hear Will Ferrell give your commencement speech, while dressed as a sailor (yeah, this really happened.)I love your ambition! Let’s make it happen.The Magic FormulaThere is no magic formula for getting into Harvard. The newest class of students admitted into the hallowed halls of Harvard (including Magoosh’s own Lena Felton) represents a tiny-but-diverse portion of the group that applied. Of the 35,023 students who applied last fall, 2,029 were admitted – a competitive 5.8%. Harvard says that this represents a record low.So, getting into Harvard isn’t easy, and it’s not getting any easier. But you knew that already. That’s why you want to attend!What You Need to Get InWhen reviewing your application, Harvard is looking for the total package. They want to admit students who will not only thrive academically, but who will also add something new and interesting to their student body. They are creating a community of scholars, and they truly value diversity.The Truth: You will definitely need to have a good GPA and be amongst the top of your high school class. You will need to excel on your SAT. You will also need to demonstrate, through extracurricular activities and hobbies, that you value civic engagement, teamwork, and non-academic endeavors.What SAT Score Do I Need to Get In to Harvard?Don’t worry – Harvard isn’t looking at you as a faceless SAT score on an online application. In fact, Harvard’s Class of 2019 is a fairly diverse group.There is no absolute minimum SAT score that you need to get into Harvard. Though, considering that Harvard only admitted 5.3% of applicants last year (1,990 of 37,307), it’s safe to say that your entire application has to make an impression.Harvard Admissions By the Numbers:It’s been difficult to get specific information about the SAT scores of Harvard’s admitted class of 2019. However, I highly recommend reading their report, Class of 2019 by the numbers for some interesting interactive charts and graphs.Some interesting stats about the Harvard Class of 2018:2237: Average composite SAT score13,500: Number of students who scored 700 or above on SAT Critical Reading16,400: Number of students who scored 700 or above on SAT Math14,200: Number of students who scored 700 or above on SAT Writing2.14: Average number of times each student took the SAT8: Percentage of students who achieved a perfect 2400 SAT scoreSAT score range for the Class of 2017:25th Percentile 75th PercentileCombined Score 2100″

Sigh.Let me give you a test.Take a look at this list of Trump actions.1973: The US Department of Justice — under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations — sued the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found evidence that Trump had refused to rent to black tenants and lied to black applicants about whether apartments were available, among other accusations. Trump said the federal government was trying to get him to rent to welfare recipients. In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discriminate to renters of color without admitting to discriminating before.1980s: Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump's Castle, accused another one of Trump's businesses of discrimination. "When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor," Brown said. "It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back."1988: In a commencement speech at Lehigh University, Trump spent much of his speechaccusing countries like Japan of "stripping the United States of economic dignity." This matches much of his current rhetoric on China.1989: In a controversial case that’s been characterized as a modern-day lynching, four black teenagers and one Latino teenager — the "Central Park Five" — were accused of attacking and raping a jogger in New York City. Trump immediately took charge in the case, running an ad in local papers demanding, "BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!" The teens’ convictions were later vacated after they spent seven to 13 years in prison, and the city paid $41 million in a settlement to the teens. But Trump in October 2016 said he still believes they’re guilty, despite the DNA evidence to the contrary.1991: A book by John O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump’s criticism of a black accountant: "Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control." Trump at first denied the remarks, but later said in a 1997 Playboy interview that "the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true."1992: The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino had to pay a $200,000 fine because it transferred black and women dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gambler’s prejudices.2000: In opposition to a casino proposed by the St. Regis Mohawk tribe, which he saw as a financial threat to his casinos in Atlantic City, Trump secretly ran a series of adssuggesting the tribe had a "record of criminal activity [that] is well documented."2004: In season two of The Apprentice, Trump fired Kevin Allen, a black contestant, for being overeducated. "You're an unbelievably talented guy in terms of education, and you haven’t done anything," Trump said on the show. "At some point you have to say, ‘That’s enough.’"2005: Trump publicly pitched what was essentially The Apprentice: White People vs. Black People. He said he "wasn't particularly happy" with the most recent season of his show, so he was considering "an idea that is fairly controversial — creating a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites. Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world."2010: In 2010, there was a huge national controversy over the "Ground Zero Mosque" — a proposal to build a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, near the site of the 9/11 attacks. Trump opposed the project, calling it "insensitive," and offered to buy out one of the investors in the project. On The Late Show With David Letterman, Trump argued, referring to Muslims, "Well, somebody’s blowing us up. Somebody’s blowing up buildings, and somebody’s doing lots of bad stuff."2011: Trump played a big role in pushing false rumors that Obama — the country’s first black president — was not born in the US. He even sent investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama's birth certificate. Obama later released his birth certificate, calling Trump a "carnival barker." (The research has found a strong correlation between "birtherism," as this conspiracy theory is called, and racism.) Trump has reportedly continued pushing this conspiracy theory in private.2011: While Trump suggested that Obama wasn’t born in the US, he also argued that maybe Obama wasn’t a good enough student to have gotten into Columbia or Harvard Law School, and demanded Obama release his university transcripts. Trump claimed, "I heard he was a terrible student. Terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?"Trump launched his campaign in 2015 by calling Mexican immigrants "rapists" who are "bringing crime" and "bringing drugs" to the US. His campaign was largely built on building a wall to keep these immigrants out of the US.As a candidate in 2015, Trump called for a ban on all Muslims coming into the US. His administration’s attempts at implementing a watered-down version of this policy have been contested in courts.When asked at a 2016 Republican debate whether all 1.6 billion Muslims hate the US, Trump said, "I mean a lot of them. I mean a lot of them."He argued in 2016 that Judge Gonzalo Curiel — who was overseeing the Trump University lawsuit — should recuse himself from the case because of his Mexican heritage and membership in a Latino lawyers association. House Speaker Paul Ryan, who endorsed Trump, later called such comments "the textbook definition of a racist comment."Trump has been repeatedly slow to condemn white supremacists who endorse him, and he regularly retweeted messages from white supremacists and neo-Nazis during his presidential campaign.He tweeted and later deleted an image that showed Hillary Clinton in front of a pile of money and by a Jewish Star of David that said, "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" The tweet had some very obvious anti-Semitic imagery, but Trump insisted that the star was a sheriff’s badge, and said his campaign shouldn’t have deleted it.Trump has repeatedly referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who has said she has Cherokee ancestors, as "Pocahontas."At the 2016 Republican convention, Trump officially seized the mantle of the "law and order" candidate — an obvious dog whistle playing to white fears of black crime, even though crime in the US is historically low. His speeches, comments, and executive actions after he took office have continued this line of messaging.In a pitch to black voters in 2016, Trump said, "You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?"Trump stereotyped a black reporter at a press conference in February 2017. When April Ryan asked him if he plans to meet and work with the Congressional Black Caucus, he repeatedly asked her to set up the meeting — even as she insisted that she’s "just a reporter."In the week after white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, Trump repeatedly said that "many sides" and "both sides" were to blame for the violence and chaos that ensued — suggesting that the white supremacist protesters were morally equivalent to counterprotesters that stood against racism. He also said that there were "some very fine people" among the white supremacists. All of this seemed like a dog whistle to white supremacists — and many of them took it as one, with white nationalist Richard Spencer praising Trump for "defending the truth."Throughout 2017, Trump repeatedly attacked NFL players who, by kneeling or otherwise silently protesting during the national anthem, demonstrated against systemic racism in America.Trump reportedly said in 2017 that people who came to the US from Haiti "all have AIDS," and he lamented that people who came to the US from Nigeria would never "go back to their huts" once they saw America. The White House denied that Trump ever made these comments.Speaking about immigration in a bipartisan meeting in January 2018, Trump reportedly asked, in reference to Haiti and African countries, "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" He then reportedly suggested that the US should take more people from countries like Norway. The implication: Immigrants from predominantly white countries are good, while immigrants from predominantly black countries are bad.Trump denied making the "shithole" comments, although some senators present at the meeting said they happened. The White House, meanwhile, suggested that the comments, like Trump’s remarks about the NFL protests, will play well to his base. The only connection between Trump’s remarks about the NFL protests and his "shithole" comments is race.Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2018Now tell me—How is Farrakhan any worse than Trump? Farrakhan said lousy things about white people and according to you and most white folks who are offended by him, he shouldn’t be allowed to associate with anyone without us having to hear over and over again about how “the black community” is racist for allowing the man to move about in free society. Half the people, especially if they are not black who see Farrakhan on the street wouldn't even recognize him, but they are off to the races, pontificating about him and making him out to be an ally of Satan ready to unleash misery and death on all white folks.Despite what people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and other unhinged right wingers would have you believe, Farrakhan has no political power of any kind. Farrakhan never HAD enough political power to do anything to anybody. His influence and access to political power or any kind of power has always been severely limited to certain sectors of the black community, in large part because the majority of black people DO NOT agree with his views. There is nobody running around who has any kind of credibility in the political world, black or white, who would ever seriously suggest Farrakhan should be elected to anything or be put in charge of anything with a significant profile, and there never HAS been anyone who has suggested it, even when Farrakhan was at the peak of whatever political power he did have.But a white man can say and do the things Trump does, and not only is he excused and defended by serious people with stature in the political world, he gets elected President by a significant number of white people. And the rest of us are lectured about how we need to respect him, even as he continues to run around saying things that are racist, and as President has actually taken actions and political/public stances that ARE racist.Why the double standard here, guys?If you voted for Trump or otherwise support him, or even tolerate him being seen with other white people like your Senator or someone else you support without bitching about how that person should refuse to be anywhere near him, but you think Farrakhan should never be allowed to be seen with other black people in public, then you know what? You might just be what we call a hypocrite.Just get a grip already. Farrakhan isn’t lurking under your bed or in your closet. He’s a crazy old man who has less political power than your average school board member.