Did any of Trump's children apply to Harvard and were not admitted?

[Jit423]

There has to be more to his Harvard hate than protests against Israeli/Gaza situtation.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. It is rumoured that Barron did apply, but there'll be no public record

unless he himself decides to say so (or his piece-of-shit father says it). Harvard wouldn't be allowed to say, and won't be stupid enough to talk about it.

[Walleye]

2. If he did admit to it, he would whine and say it was political persecution.

I’m willing to believe it, since they were willing to believe every slander and lie about the Biden’s

[ZZenith]

3. It's about the Pritzkers.

Decades-long beef with the Pritzker family.

[Ocelot II]

4. No. There's no evidence at all.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/21/columbia-harvard-stanford-barron-trump/

Trump's vendetta against Harvard goes back to his first administration, if not before. Trump has plenty of reasons to hate Harvard, not the least of which is that Obama went there and was the president of the Law Review. Trump can hate Harvard easily enough because it's the flagship Ivy League school that he didn'tgo to, and his animosity dates back to his first term.

Between 2017 and 2020, during Donald Trump's first term, Harvard University frequently clashed with the Trump administration over immigration, civil rights, and academic freedom. It publicly condemned the administration’s travel ban targeting Muslim-majority countries, defended undocumented students by challenging efforts to dismantle DACA, and fought alongside MIT to overturn a policy that threatened the visa status of international students taking online classes.

During this period, Harvard was also the target of a high-profile lawsuit alleging anti-Asian bias in admissions, a case supported by Trump’s Department of Justice. Although Harvard ultimately prevailed in court, the administration’s scrutiny of elite institutions continued, including investigations into alleged unreported foreign funding...

https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/how-harvard-became-ground-zero-in-trumps-war-on-elite-universities-a-timeline-19609256.htm

[surfered]

5. There is this. Gov Pritzker 's sister is on the Harvard Board.

The Pritzkers are Hyatt heirs. Their father did a hotel deal with Trump back in the day and the deal went bad. Not sure if this is the cause, but Trump is a very petty person.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/us/penny-pritzker-harvard-board-trump

[HappyH]

6. This was my thought

Trump is the definition of petty. The trump Hyatt deal was early ‘90s if my memory is correct. Trump sued Hyatt and I think that was thrown out. Trump vowed vengeance on the Pritzkers. Penny Pritzker had a big hand in her father’s business at the time, now she is the Senior Fellow of Harvard Corp, the entity that owns Harvard.

[surfered]

7. That's the best theory I've heard . Trump's anti-Semitic complaint against Harvard fails because...

…because the Pritzkers are Jewish.

[HappyH]

8. adding a link to a recent article

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-bitter-personal-feud-with-pritzker-family-is-behind-his-harvard-hate-campaign/

Paywalled, sorry about that, the Daily Beast paywall is easy to defeat if you're using a Mac.
I wasn't right about a couple things in my comment above, the Hyatt deal was mid 70s and the lawsuit was settled after the Pritzters countersued.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Harvard made the right decision

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. This explains a great deal

[milestogo]

11. I have not heard that undergraduate schools were fighting over Barron.

When there is a smart, prominent kid - like Chelsea Clinton or the Obamas - the recruiters are out there.