No, Barron Trump was not rejected by Harvard, Melania says amid university battle
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President Donald Trump is escalating his battle with Harvard University.
Harvard is one of several universities targeted by the Trump administration, which alleges schools aren't doing enough to protect Jewish students. Harvard has defied executive orders seeking to influence the school's curriculum and filed multiple lawsuits. On May 27, the New York Times and CNN reported Trump is poised to cancel the remaining federal contracts with Harvard, worth an estimated $100 million in total.
The fierce fight has led to questions about Trump's personal history with the university. Some have wondered if Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump's son Barron Trump, 19, was rejected from the university.
"Can’t help but wonder how many Trumps got rejected by Harvard," Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., mused on a social media post that received more than 40,000 views.
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I don't believe the plastic Slovenian robot or anything that comes out of her mouth.
This family is THAT petty to do this because the little princeling wasn't accepted.
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I guess everybody’s too chicken to ask Barron
I think that had quite a bit to do with Chump getting accepted.
Putting the shoe on the other foot, I can't see Chump making any "donations" to Harvard to do the same for his own son. I could be wrong, but I suspect that Chump thinks any college should accept Barron as a privilege.
Barron's grades probably weren't good enough to get into Harvard on his own. He's not a typical legacy candidate since his own parents or grandparents didn't matriculate there. Harvard as well as other top schools will quietly bend their requirements for legacies, but not for other people's kids.
Sure Harvard knew that Barron's parents could afford the tuition, but they might have expected some kind of large donation (as wealthy families often do) to get their kid into a top school. Yes it's a shakedown but other wealthy families are fine with it, including Donald's own father who made a donation to University of Pennsylvania to get Donald accepted. Chump's attitude (I'm guessing here) was that Harvard should have been delighted to accept Barron Trump and his underwhelming grades, just because he's the son of a President. No additional donation would have been necessary, in Chump's estimation.
Now what's Harvard going to do? Lower their standards just for one kid who's not very smart? Why should they, when Harvard rejects more high-quality applicants every year than most prestige schools ever receive. They've probably "disappeared" the paperwork so that no one would ever know that Barron didn't get accepted.
That's how I see it.
My own experience is with University of Notre Dame where the competition for acceptance is just as intense.
Also what about those recent news stories where celebrities got their children into a highly competitive school (grades weren't good enough, but we found another way) by getting them admitted through varsity athletic scholarships?
Now that I think about it, Harvard could have accepted Barron Chump as a varsity basketball player and nobody would have batted an eye. If they don't have varsity basketball, OK what about ice hockey? I don't even know if he's athletically inclined, but it wouldn't have mattered. The college coaches and athletic directors have a lot of leeway in offering varsity scholarships and in some cases, it has encouraged abuse and fraud.