NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, enrolled this week as a freshman at New York University, his father said Wednesday.
Trump said this decision Video Interview Speaking to the Daily Mail, he confirmed rumors going around for months that his son would be attending the university’s Stern School of Business, one of the top business schools in the nation.
“He’s a very talented kid, but he’s not a kid anymore,” Trump said. “He’s just reached something beyond just being a kid. He’s doing very well.”
Barron Trump, 18 years old, Graduated He is set to graduate in May from Oxbridge Academy, a prestigious private school near his father’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. As a freshman at New York University, he will take classes a few miles from his childhood home in Trump Tower, where his father still lives.
It was not immediately clear whether he would live on campus or at home. An NYU spokesman did not respond to an emailed inquiry about admissions.
The Stern campus is located in a bustling area of downtown Manhattan, across from the famous Washington Square Park. The business school’s square is Temporarily occupied The university was attacked by pro-Palestinian protesters last spring, resulting in police deployment and arrests, and facing the possibility of renewed protests, it has put in place additional security measures for the start of the fall semester.
Three of Trump’s four children — Ivanka Trump, Tiffany Trump and Donald Trump Jr. — graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, which Trump also attended. Trump, who attended the university’s Wharton Business School, said his youngest son considered the program but decided against it.
“I went to Wharton, which was certainly one of the schools I considered, but I didn’t do it,” Trump told the Daily Mail. “I went to Stern.”
