High school seniors reject Columbia University as Trump admin reviews money for Ivy League schools

Students who person been accepted to Columbia University are declining to be the Ivy League schoolhouse amid anti-Israel protests that person caused chaos connected campus, the New York Post reported.

According to a assemblage admissions advisor who spoke to The Post, 10 assemblage seniors whom the advisor guided done the process and who were accepted to Columbia person each decided to enroll elsewhere.

"This would not person been the lawsuit 3 years ago," Christopher Rim, CEO of Command Education, told the Post. "The existent marque has been tarnished."

Rim besides said that the students who volition enroll for the 2025–2026 schoolhouse twelvemonth are ones "who didn’t get successful anyplace else" and said that determination is excessively overmuch "up-and-down craziness" making Columbia look similar an unstable halfway for higher education. 

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Pro-Palestinian supporters rally extracurricular Columbia University connected April 23, 2024 successful New York City. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)

His clients who person been accepted to Columbia are alternatively choosing schools similar New York University, Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania and Washington University successful St. Louis, helium said.

Columbia has been crushed zero for anti-Israel riots and demonstrations during the ongoing struggle betwixt Israel and Gaza successful effect to the Oct. 7, 2023 panic onslaught targeting Israeli concertgoers. 

President Donald Trump responded by revoking $400 cardinal successful national backing from the schoolhouse aft his Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested and revoked the greenish paper of accused riot ringleader Mahmoud Khalil. Trump besides demanded that the assemblage prohibition protesters from wearing look coverings. 

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From near to right, President Donald Trump, Mahmoud Khalil and protesters. (Getty Images)

The assemblage caved to Trump's demands, enraging students and graduates alike. 

Former Columbia President Minouche Shafik stepped down successful August, and interim President Katrina Armstrong besides resigned astatine the extremity of past week, little than 8 months into her tenure. 

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Fox News Digital reached retired to Columbia for comment. 

Ivy League woes widen beyond Columbia, though. 

After watching Trump's involution connected Columbia's campus, Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler reportedly dismissed module leaders from the school's Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), saying that the school's "programming connected Palestine was insufficiently balanced," according to the Harvard Crimson. 

CMES' director, Turkish studies prof Cemal Kafadar, and subordinate director, past adjunct prof Rosie Bsheer, were reportedly purged from their posts wrong the center. 

A presumption of the encampment successful Harvard yard. The "Liberated Zone" had respective signs decrying genocide and calling for divestment from Israel. (Nikolas Lanum/Fox News Digital)

Harvard's section of the American Association of University Professors responded with condemnation of their own. 

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"Not lone has specified a modular ne'er been required earlier of immoderate different centers, but the modular itself, if real, would beryllium a caller ideological effort by critics of the assemblage to undermine its faculty’s subject-area expertise and to dictate what its module teaches," the section said successful a statement. 

The Department of Education besides precocious announced a "comprehensive review" of national contracts and government-funded grants astatine Harvard, arsenic portion of the Trump administration's crackdown connected antisemitism connected campuses.

The bureau said successful a property merchandise connected Monday that it volition reappraisal much than $255.6 cardinal successful contracts betwixt Harvard, its affiliates and the national government, positive astir $9 cardinal worthy of grants.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Harvard.

Fox News Digital's Andrea Margolis contributed to this report.