The guessing game is finally over. Barron Trump is going to New York University where he will attend the Stern Undergraduate College—which the Daily Beast first reported in April was his top choice.
The 18-year-old Trump was seen Wednesday with a backpack, wearing a white polo shirt and Adidas sneakers, going to the NYU Dean’s office building with Secret Service agents who will protect him while his father runs for president, the New York Post reported .
NYU is number 35 overall on the U.S. News & World Report ranking of best colleges and number 5 for its business programs.
Donald Trump told the Daily Mail that while they were considering other colleges, Barron ultimately liked NYU the best.
“It’s a very high quality place. He liked it. He liked the school,” Trump told the Daily Mail . “I went to Wharton, and that was certainly one that we were considering. We didn’t do that… We went for Stern.”
“He’s a very high aptitude child, but he’s no longer a child. He’s just passed into something beyond child-dom.”
He becomes the first Trump to attend a New York City college since his father enrolled at Fordham University in the Bronx in 1964 before transferring two years later to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Barron, a 6’7” teenager who largely steers clear of his father’s limelight, graduated in May from the Oxbridge Academy in Palm Beach, Florida.
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The elder Trump, who has refused to release his own academic transcripts and threatened any schools that do so , had boasted for months about his son’s college prospects and toyed with the press about where he would enroll.
“He’s amazing actually in a certain way,” Trump, who is 6’3”, told Fox and Friends Weekend in June. “He’s tall, good-looking guy. He’s a very good student, and he’s applied to colleges and gets into everywhere he goes. He’s very sought-after from the standpoint he’s a very smart guy. He’s a very tall guy and he’s a great kid. He’s cool. He’s pretty cool, I’ll tell you.”
Many speculated that the youngest Trump would follow in his family’s Ivy League footsteps at UPenn, ranked #6 in the most recent list from U.S. News & World Report. Trump graduated from Wharton in 1968 after transferring from Fordham , which was never his first choice. He hoped to attend the University of Southern California, where he planned to study film and become a movie producer, but his application was rejected. While he frequently mentions his degree from UPenn and pretended for years that he graduated #1 in his Wharton class, he has rarely spoken about his years at Fordham, a Catholic college, ranked #89 by U.S. News .
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Like their father, three of Barron’s siblings—Don Jr., Ivanka...
