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Was Barron Rejected by Harvard? Claim Surfaces Amid Trump’s Ongoing Clash With the Ivy League University

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Viral social media posts have claimed that Donald Trump is targeting various Ivy League institutions because his son, Barron Trump, was rejected by them. This comes amid escalating tensions between universities like Harvard, Columbia, and Stanford, and the Trump administration. Viral posts suggest that Trump is threatening to cut their federal funding as a retaliation against the rejections.

Despite the claims having gone viral, there is evidence to indicate that Barron had applied to Harvard and was rejected by the institution. Barron’s academic journey began at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York City. He was later transferred to St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Maryland in September 2017 after Trump was elected as president.

Barron enrolled at Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida, after his father left the White House in 2021. In 2024, he went on to graduate from Oxbridge. That same fall, Barron started attending New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he is currently enrolled. NYU is an excellent school, but it is not Ivy League, a group of eight universities that are considered the best of the best.

Harvard reportedly received a letter from the Trump administration last week, outlining a number of demands tied to federal funding, including reforming its curriculum and admissions programs, discontinuing DEI practices and additional policy demands.

However, The New York Times recently reported that the letter was “unauthorized” and should not have been sent, citing two insiders familiar with the situation. Harvard rejected the demands of the April 11 letter, with President Alan M. Garber saying in a statement that the “University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”

Inside the Trump administration, there were different accounts on how the letter was mishandled. While some at the White House said it was sent prematurely, others believed it was never meant to be sent. Harvard told CNN that it does not doubt the letter’s authenticity, noting that the Trump administration has already frozen billions in federal funding to the renowned university.

“Even assuming the Administration now wishes to take back its litany of breathtakingly intrusive demands, it appears to have doubled down on those demands through its deeds in recent days. Actions speak louder than words,” a statement from a Harvard spokesperson reads in part.

The spokesperson said that the letter “was signed by three federal officials, placed on official letterhead, was sent from the e-mail inbox of a senior federal official, and was sent on April 11 as promised.”

Now of course, we have no idea whether Barron even applied to Harvard. Harvard is also known to be a university that takes large donations in return for admission, as Jared Kushner’s father did to get his dopey son into the school. But knowing how cheap Trump is, he probably thought the Trump name alone was worth admission.

And if you take a look at social media, many have put together Trump’s vendetta against Harvard to his son Barron perhaps being rejected by the storied university.

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