Donald J Trump Early life and education

Senior yearbook photo of Trump in 1964 wearing the uniform of his private boarding school, New York Military Academy [11][12]
Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Queens , New York City. He was the fourth of five children born to Frederick Trump (1905–1999) and Mary Anne Trump (née MacLeod, 1912–2000). [13] His siblings are Maryanne (b. 1937), Fred Jr. (1938–1981), Elizabeth (b. 1942), and Robert (b. 1948).
Trump grew up in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens. He attended the Kew-Forest School from kindergarten through seventh grade. At age 13, he enrolled in the New York Military Academy , a private boarding school, after his parents discovered that he had made frequent trips into Manhattan without their permission. [14][15]
In August 1964, Trump began his higher education at
Fordham University . [11][16] After two years, he transferred to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, because it offered one of the few real-estate studies departments in United States academia at the time. [16][17]
In addition to his father, Trump was inspired by Manhattan developer William Zeckendorf , vowing to be "even bigger and better". [18] While at Wharton, he worked at the family business, Elizabeth Trump and Son, [19] graduating in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics. [16][20][21]
Trump was not drafted during the Vietnam War , and he did not enlist either as a volunteer or as a Reserve Officer Training Corps candidate. [22] While Trump was in college from 1964 to 1968, he obtained four student deferments. [23] In 1966, he was deemed fit for service based upon a military medical examination, and in 1968 was briefly classified as fit by a local draft board. In October of that year, he was given a 1-Y medical deferment ,[24] which was attributed to heel spurs . [25] In 1969, he received a high number in the draft lottery , which gave him a low probabilty to be called to military service. [24][26][27].