Former President Donald Trump dominated the headlines this week as his lawyers and those working for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sparred in a New York courtroom.

Yet Mr. Trump isn't the only member of his family to be in the news recently, as the Daily Beast has reported that his youngest son Barron Trump will be attending college next year. 

New York University said to be Barron's top choice

The website cited unnamed sources as saying that New York University (NYU) "is at the top" of the list of schools Barron is considering.

The Daily Beast pointed out how NYU is located just "three miles from Trump Tower," which is where the former president's son spent much of his childhood.

It is also home to the home to the John A. Paulson Center, named for a hedge-fund billionaire who is one of his father's biggest donors.

Other famous names to attend NYU have included film directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen, actors Alec Baldwin and Anne Hathaway, tech mogul Jack Dorsey, and New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu.

Barron once took his fifth-grade class on a trip to Washington

According to People magazine, the former president's youngest son "has attended numerous prestigious schools," including Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

The magazine noted that following his father's victory in 2016, Barron "took his entire fifth-grade class on a trip to Washington" during which they visited the White House.

He later attended St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland for much of his father's presidency. He is expected to graduate on May 17 from Oxbridge Academy in Palm Beach, Florida.

Judge Juan Merchan is overseeing former President Trump's New York City trial, and he has yet to decide whether Trump will be permitted to attend Barron's graduation ceremony.

While that has prompted Trump to lash out at the judge, some critics have alleged that the former president didn't bother to attend the graduation ceremony of his eldest daughter.

Photos show Trump was present for Ivanka's graduation in 2004

However, USA Today contributor Hannah Hudnall explained in a fact-check article published earlier this week this was not the case.

She pointed to photographs posted by Ivanka Trump to a social media account which show her standing alongside her father on the day she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.

Other photographs show Ms. Trump's grandmother at her graduation as well as her brothers Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.