rump's war on Harvard ignited after Barron didn't get in

[struggle4progress]

Trump's "attack" on Harvard is fuelled by a personal vendetta after his son Barron was rejected, says former president of the harvard club in the uk

[sop]

1. Trump probably felt Barron was passed over for a DEI applicant or foreign student visa holder.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Yes Trump wants NO foreign students in US universities. Only American white males.

So his precious spawn can get in to Harvard.

[allegorical oracle]

7. Why didn't Donnie BUY Barron a $2M Harvard entrance like Jared's dad did? nt

[Irish_Dem]

9. Harvard must have told Trump to take a hike.

Which pissed off Trump to no end.

Hence the Harvard witch hunt we are now seeing.

Barron's grades must have been dismal.
And had a very bad attitude.

[JT45242]

23. More likely crappy ACT or SAT scores...

At the kind of school that Barron goes to, EVERYONE gets straight A.

No where is grade inflation more rampant than expensive private schools for rich kids.

[Irish_Dem]

25. Yes his college admissions standardized testing must have been a train wreck.

[ShazzieB]

36. Isn't he at NYU? That's a very good school.

Harvard is the tippy top of the tippy top, and hardly anyone gets in there (only about 3.5% of Harvard applicants are accepted). They turn down people with excellent academic records and test scores all the the time, because they have the luxury of picking and choosing from among the most outstanding students in the whole country and beyond. All a rejection from Harvard means is that you didn't make it into an extremely tiny and elite group,

NYU otoh isn't Ivy League, but it's a highly rated school with very selective admission requirements. Less than 10% of their applicants get in, which isn't a lot.Most parents would be proud to have their kid accepted there. Only the Orange Hellbeast would take having his kid turned down by Harvard as a personal insult and launch a vendetta against the place!

More info about comparative admission standards at Harvard and NYU can be found here:
* https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/Harvard-admission-requirements
* https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/NYU-admission-requirementsabout 9.

[Dave Bowman]

30. "Barron's grades must have been dismal."

Like father like son, I guess. At least four generations of Trumps being barely literate, dump, and evil.

[ShazzieB]

37. I wouldn't assume anything about Barron's test scores either way.

Harvard is so picky hardly anybody gets in. You can have a 4.0 GPA and great test scores and not get into Harvard.

The school he did get into, NYU, has pretty high admission standards. He wouldnt have been admitted there without decent grades and test scores, imo.

[yardwork]

12. That's what every conservative thinks when their kid doesn't get in.

[Initech]

2. I want this piece of shit and his goon squad out of the White House now!

[malaise]

3. Duh

Rec

[LoisB]

5. If Harvard and other Ivy League schools are so liberal, why would IT want his son to go there?

Why not send him to Liberty University?

[Evolve Dammit]

6. good question

[Prairie Gates]

8. I find this unlikely...Melania essentially moved back to New York to coddle Barron at NYU

There's no way they would have sent him to Mass alone and no way Melania would spend more than 48 hours straight in Boston.

This nis all speculation from some guy, essentially.

[Miles Archer]

10. I've seen a number of "IS THIS TRUE" articles and they all waffle on whether it's true.

"This nis all speculation from some guy, essentially."

That seemed to be the conclusion everyone drew. I didn't find an article that authoritatively stated "IT HAPPENED."

[Paladin]

11. Hateful, selfish, destructive vengeance from $TRUMP?

Remarkably easy to believe.

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. Maybe Trump is just jealous of all people

who get to say they graduated from Harvard. People who actually are educated. There are some really smart people who came out of Harvard Law.

Trump's education is a joke.

[BoRaGard]

14. Aha! You knew it had to be something petty

the republicon draft dodger's fee fees was hurted

[LisaM]

15. It kind of doesn't matter if it's true or not.

It's so entirely on brand that it may as well be.

[pandr32]

16. Clearly our dick(tator)-in-chief doesn't have the temperament for any office.

To think many say women are too 'emotional'!

[mgardener]

17. I'm surprised

Elise Stefanik didn't use her influence to get Barron admitted.
Oh, right.....

Who mother moves to a city to be with her college age son?
What is going on there?

[bamagal62]

21. I know, right?

[Tickle]

18. It's never been denied or confirmed

Barron Trump is attending NYU, but since his GPA and test scores haven't been publicly released, it's unclear whether he met the standard admission criteria. However, the average GPA for admitted students at NYU is 4.1, with average SAT scores around 1545 and ACT scores around 35 — which suggests Barron likely had strong academic credentials to gain acceptance..

[Attilatheblond]

32. Don't most colleges look at a student's extra curiculars too? Barron doesn't strike me as having much interest in life.

He seems very uncomfortable anywhere but beside his mother.

Also, another pisser for Trump is that Malia Obama went to Harvard. Oh, and our dear Pete Buttigieg went to Harvard too, before he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.

[haele]

38. He'll be less coddled at NYU...

This is all just BS click bait anyway. (Ya, I admit I clicked ....)
Hopefully, the kid will get out of his family bubble and start living in a somewhat real world, where his name doesn't mean as much as his actions do.
His mom isn't dumb; she's just a wannabe socialite who probably could have been more if she hadn't lazily followed the Party Honeypot path.

[dchill]

19. Ah. Vindictive.

[usaf-vet]

20. If the cheap SOB built them a new building on campus, they might let him in--maybe!

You all know that is a pipe dream...... right!!?

[Karasu]

22. LMAO. What a fucking joke. This MIGHT just be even more pathetic than going after them because of "DEI" and "wokism."

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It's a fucking coin toss, really.

As per usual, the truth of the matter is the pettiest explanation possible.

[Arazi]

24. Destroying higher education is a Project 2025 goal

They thought Harvard would fold after their trial run at Columbia.

I doubt Barron even applied at Harvard. Melanie would never have approved since he wouldn’t be living with her

[MLWR]

26. It figures...

[rickyhall]

27. He can take online classes lol

[Traildogbob]

28. They wanted to assure

All the female students would not get grabbed by the “P”or moved in like a bitch, after he popped in a few tic tac’s. He is Famous. They allow you.
Also they thought daddy may start prowling around with Baron’s class mates.

[not fooled]

33. Can you imagine being the parent of a Harvard student

and finding out that B. Trump had the Tate Brothers hanging around the dorm, handing out "dating tips" to other undergraduates?

[kimbutgar]

29. Why am I not shocked?

[MIButterfly]

31. You know, that actually makes sense.

He is a vindictive SOB. Remember during his first term when he tried to undo all of the legislation President Obama signed because Obama made a joke about him at the White House Correspondence dinner one year? What a petty little man.

[Attilatheblond]

35. Yep. His vendetta against Harvard likely has personal roots. It's how he works

Knowing that, seems likely Stephen Miller, who does think strategically, would probably see getting Trump to target that university as the first phase to undermine higher education and especially foreign students in the US.

[Picaro]

34. Of course

Keep forgetting about Barron.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

39. Harvard made the right decision

[LetMyPeopleVote]

40. This explains a great deal