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Outbyte PC Repair FREERepair Windows errors before they cause bigger problemsFix Now →Outbyte Driver Updater FREEScan for outdated or missing drivers - takes under a minuteDriver Scan →Donald Trump said in a Daily Mail interview published September 4, 2024, that his son Barron would attend New York University’s Stern School of Business. Reports published that week said Barron was beginning his freshman year at NYU; the statement was Trump’s, not a separately cited announcement from the university.
What did Donald Trump say about Barron’s college?
In the September 4, 2024, Daily Mail interview, Donald Trump said: “He’s a very smart guy, and he’ll be going to Stern, the business school, which is a great school at NYU.” He was describing Barron’s school choice. Axios reported the statement, and the Associated Press report republished by ABC17 covered Barron’s enrollment at New York University.
Was Barron already attending NYU?
Contemporaneous coverage described Barron as starting college at NYU that week. The Associated Press also described him as a freshman NYU business student in a January 18, 2025, report about the Trump family’s return to the White House. These reports support the distinction between Trump’s specific statement about Stern and reporting that Barron had begun his freshman year at NYU.
What is reported about Barron’s later campus?
Articles published in 2025 described Barron as a sophomore and reported that he was studying at NYU’s Washington, D.C., campus. That is reporting about his campus assignment, not a campus confirmation from NYU in the sources cited here. It should therefore be attributed to those reports rather than presented as an official university announcement.
Stories about Barron attending NYU include The Daily Beast’s 2025 report. A separate Lead Stories fact-check published in October 2025 addressed claims that he had dropped out. Neither changes the attribution of Trump’s original 2024 statement.
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- Trump’s 2024 statement: He said Barron would attend NYU’s Stern School of Business in an interview published September 4, 2024.
- Freshman enrollment: Contemporary reporting said Barron began his freshman year at NYU that week; the Associated Press called him a freshman NYU business student in January 2025.
- Washington, D.C., campus: Later 2025 articles reported that he was studying there, but the sources cited here do not include an NYU statement confirming the campus assignment.
No admissions-rate figure is necessary to explain the announcement. Poets&Quants reported figures about NYU and Stern in its September 4, 2024, article, but its excerpt does not clearly establish the publication year for the reported Stern rate. That figure is not included here.
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