When your family is American royalty like the Trumps, education at top schools is as
much a part of the lifestyle as yacht parties and dodging paparazzi.
We took a look at the Trumps and found out how far all of them made it in school.
Donald Trump graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor
of science in real estate in 1968.
But for some reason, the school has been notoriously tight-lipped with any details regarding his
time there.
Philadelphia magazine perhaps put it best when it said responses from the school are,
quote, "the academic version of name, rank and serial number," offering no information
beyond Donald's year of graduation and degree attained.
"Does everybody love school?"
"YES!"
Prior to attending the University of Pennsylvania, Donald attended Fordham University, where
he had grades described as "respectable" in the book The Trumps: Three Generations That
Built an Empire.
He transferred to the more prestigious University of Pennsylvania after two years, gaining admission
after an admissions officer who was friends with his brother Fred Jr. gave Donald an interview.
Just like his famous father, Donald Trump Jr. attended the Wharton School at the University
of Pennsylvania, obtaining a bachelor's degree in finance and real estate in the year 2000.
While at Penn, Don Jr. had a reputation for drinking heavily and getting into fights.
He told New York magazine in 2004,
"To be fairly candid, I used to drink and party pretty hard."
A Vanity Fair story painted a slightly blunter picture of his behavior, quoting former Penn
classmate Scott Melker as saying,
"Every memory I have of him is of him stumbling around on campus falling over or passing out
in public, with his arm in a sling from injuring himself while drinking."
Donald Jr.'s reported reputation with women was just as woeful.
In a People feature on his time at Penn, a former partying buddy said,
"Everyone was warned to stay away from Donnie Trump."
Perhaps no child has charted a similar course to the president like Ivanka Trump.
Like her father, she did not initially attend the University of Pennsylvania, opting to
attend Georgetown University after high school.
Donald Trump reportedly had wanted Ivanka to attend Penn like he did, but she went to
Georgetown to be with her boyfriend.
"He was demanding of us, he had very high expectations for us, because he knew what
we had the potential to accomplish."
As early college relationships occasionally do, Ivanka's fizzled, so she transferred to
the Wharton School at Penn.
In her bio for her book The Trump Card, Ivanka claimed she graduated summa cum laude from
Wharton.
But HuffPost's Highline did some digging on the claim and discovered she actually graduated
with a 3.4 GPA, two notches below summa.
According to the Highline story, Ivanka's people acknowledged the error, and noted that
other biographical material, including her official Trump Organization bio online, has
the correct GPA listed.
Like his sister Ivanka, Eric Trump also opted to attend Georgetown University.
But unlike her, he stayed the entire four years, earning a degree in management and
finance in 2006.
And while his academic and personal record there were not the stuff of media headlines,
he has definitely put himself in the news with the school over the past few years.
In 2018, he took umbrage with Georgetown professor Dr. Carol Christine Fair, who tweeted that
white conservative senators, quote, "deserve miserable deaths" for their actions during
Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
Eric Trump responded, tweeting that Fair was, quote, "an absolute embarrassment to herself
and this great institution."
In February 2020, Eric's return to campus for a roundtable with Turning Point USA executive
director Charlie Kirk resulted in about 40 student protesters walking out of the event
to draw attention to immigrant rights.
Tiffany Trump attended the University of Pennsylvania, right in line with her father, older brother,
and older sister.
Interestingly, she attended with Naomi Biden, granddaughter of former vice president Joe
Biden.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that both he and Donald Trump were present at the 2016
graduation.
After graduation, Tiffany opted for law school at what we can only assume is the lone acceptable
alternative to Penn for a Trump child: Georgetown University.
"As a recent graduate, I can relate to so many of you who might be looking for a job."
She graduated in May 2020, and though she has not announced any specific plans to take
the bar exam or work at a law firm, she did hint that she might be joining the family
business during a 2016 ABC News interview.
Donald Trump seemed delighted at the prospect of Tiffany getting herself a JD.
He tweeted,
"Great student, great school.
Just what I need is a lawyer in the family.
Proud of you Tiff."
On her now-defunct website MelaniaTrump.com, First Lady Melania Trump claimed to have obtained
"a degree in design and architecture at University in Slovenia".
But there is no "University of Slovenia."
Other reports claim she attended the University of Ljubljana instead, but there's no record
of her graduation.
According to PolitiFact, Melania lied in a 2013 deposition about her also defunct caviar
skin cream line, repeating the claim she'd gotten a degree.
The program for the 2016 Republican National Convention similarly mentioned Melania having
graduated from the University of Ljubljana, according to CBS News, which discredited the
claim and maintained she has no degree.
A GQ interview with Melania claimed she, quote, "applied to the school of architecture at
the local university, successfully passing the notoriously difficult entrance exams,"
but does not mention her earning a diploma and instead notes she "effectively [dropped]
out" after a year to focus on modeling.
Donald Trump's oldest sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, attended Mount Holyoke College, and
then received her master's degree from Columbia University in 1962.
She took nearly a decade off from school, presumably to care for her children, before
then going on to earn a JD at Hofstra University in 1974.
According to her page on the Federal Judicial Center website, Maryanne was appointed to
the U.S. District Court for the State of New Jersey by Ronald Reagan in 1983.
Sixteen years later, she would gain an appointment on the Third Circuit of the U.S. Court of
Appeals, nominated by Bill Clinton.
Donald Trump's first wife, Ivana Trump, has one of the highest levels of education of
anyone in the immediate Trump family, besides Tiffany Trump and Donald Trump's sister Maryanne.
The mother of Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Jr. was a competitive skier as a child, joining
Czechoslovakia's youth ski team before being passed over for the 1972 Olympics.
Her athletic background led her to obtain a master's degree in physical education from
Charles University in Prague.
She didn't get much of a chance to use the degree, however, as she soon married an Austrian
skier and moved to Toronto.
The marriage fizzled, and Ivana moved to Montreal, where she began modeling.
That work led her to New York, where, in 1976, she was drinking at Maxwell's bar when in
walked Donald Trump.
Nine months later they were married.
Many had not heard of Donald Trump's niece Mary Trump before her tell-all book Too Much
and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man grabbed headlines
a few weeks before the 2020 Republican National Convention.
She is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr., Donald's oldest brother, who died of an alcoholism-induced
heart attack at age 42 in 1981.
Her literary prowess would be no surprise to anyone familiar with her educational background,
however.
The president's niece graduated from Tufts University with a degree in English literature
and then went on to receive a master's degree in the same subject from Columbia.
Later she earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Adelphi University.
Mary's book wasn't just a way of making use of her English lit degrees.
It was the culmination of decades of frustration with Donald Trump, including a 2000 lawsuit
she and her siblings brought over the division of Fred Sr.'s assets.
She hasn't been quiet in her disapproval of the president, either, tweeting a few days
after the 2016 election,
"This has been one of the worst nights of my life."
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