HARVARD TIES

Jared Kushner, 45, Drops Stunning Admission About His Elite Education

After Trump’s son-in-law went after an exposé last week, he’s now defending his high school record.

Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is furiously trying to push back on coverage of him, but in doing so, he made one glaring admission about his time at Harvard.

Kushner, 45, put up a lengthy post on Thursday taking aim at a profile of him in The New Yorker that was published last month titled “Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy.”

The president’s son has been under the microscope for his work around the world for the Trump administration despite having no official government role and still conducting personal business.

In his latest attempt to “put the facts out there,” as he put it, Kushner shared a lengthy post disputing fourteen claims in the article.

But among them, Kushner went so far as to push back on the idea that a donation from his father, Charles Kushner, played a role in his acceptance to Harvard nearly 30 years ago, but his answer literally admitted as much.

“Kushner was admitted to Harvard, after his father pledged to donate $2.5 million—with donations beginning once his son started classes. While in college, Jared began investing in apartment buildings, many of them in Somerville, a short walk from campus,” the article read, and Kushner highlighted in his response.

“This allegation has been repeated for nearly two decades, but that doesn’t make it true,” Kushner wrote. But just several lines later he added: “His philanthropy may have played a role in my admission.”

Turns out, Kushner isn’t disputing the line in the article at all, suggesting his family’s giving millions to Harvard may have had an impact, but he still took issue with any suggestion that he wasn’t a top high school student or lacked merit.

While Kushner did not flag the lines specifically, he was clearly triggered when The New Yorker called him a “middling student” while he attended Frisch School, with a family acquaintance saying, “He’s a parody of someone to whom everything has been given.”

“The claim that I was a mediocre student is contradicted by the contemporaneous record: I was a top student, captain of the basketball team, assistant captain of the hockey team, an award-winning debater, and finished the New York City Marathon while still in high school,” Kushner wrote.

According to Kushner, the distortion of his record “started with a quote attributed to an administrator at my high school who later said her words had been distorted. Both she and her principal explicitly disputed the allegation in the attached letters.”

Kushner graduated from the Frisch School, a private Jewish school in Paramus, New Jersey, in 1999. The tuition for the school this year is $29,550, not including other fees.

As evidence, Kushner shared two letters from 2006, which did not provide proof that he was an exemplary student, but focused on a quote about him as a student that they wrote afterward had been distorted.

One letter was from his former high school administrator, Margot Krebs. She wrote to him that her quote in a book, as reported by the Daily News, had been “totally distorted,” though she had not seen the actual book.

“I told him you had many personal attributes, including individuality, enterprise and great charisma, that made you a desirable candidate for Harvard,” she wrote 20 years ago.

The other letter he shared on Thursday to support his claim that his academic record had been distorted was from the principal of the Frisch School, Kalman Stein, who also raised concerns over the Daily News article about a book by Daniel Golden quoting Krebs.

In it, he reassured Kushner that the school was “quite upset by the inaccurate and misleading content of the article and by the discomfort it might have caused you and your family.”

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In the letter, Stein said he spoke to the book’s author but Kushner never came up. He also said that, had his name come up, he would have told him he never talks about students or alumni with unauthorized individuals, but he also had never met Kushner, had never crossed paths with him and knew nothing about his college path.

Stein also noted that he had spoken to Krebs about her own interview and wrote, “As she recalls, she responded that if you were not absolutely at the top of your class you did have special qualities and strengths which should have, and apparently did, make the admissions people at Harvard take notice and decide to admit you.”

As for the suggestion that his father’s donation of millions helped secure his place at Harvard, Kushner also wrote in his post, “My father’s philanthropy was not limited to Harvard.”

“For more than four decades, he has contributed over $100 million to charitable causes and institutions, including schools attended by members of our family and many institutions with which our family had no personal connection,” he wrote.

In 2025, Charles Kushner was appointed as Ambassador to France and Monaco by his son’s father-in-law, Donald Trump. The plum posting came after Trump pardoned Charles Kushner in 2020, after he pleaded guilty to counts of assisting in the filing of false tax returns, witness retaliation, and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission, and served two years in prison.

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