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Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager that made headlines after being acquitted for fatally shooting two men and injuring another during a Wisconsin protest, claims he is planning to go to Texa A&M. But after a spokesman for the school denied the claims, the teenager now said he is going to attend Blinn College in 2022.
Kyle Rittenhouse, the infamous teenager who was acquitted after fatally shooting two men for allegedly defending himself, claims that he is going to attend Blinn college a few days after he said he was going to Texas A&M University in a conservative podcast.
His announcement also follows a Texas A&M spokesperson publicly saying on Sunday that Rittenhouse had not, in fact, been accepted at the Tier One research university for this summer or fall, despite his claims that he was going to attend.
Kyle Rittenhouse's Education Plans
In a Twitter post on Monday afternoon, Rittenhouse said that his experiences had robbed him of the end of his high school career. He expressed his excitement about attending Blinn College District, which he said was a feeder school for Texas A&M.
Kyle Rittenhouse announces he’s going to Texas A&M live on the @charliekirk11 show. pic.twitter.com/0vXZ7kw8zI
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 4, 2022
However, a Blinn College spokesperson said that while the teenager has indeed applied for the school, he has not enrolled for a current or upcoming term. The university is an open enrollment college, which means that all students are welcome to enroll, as per WFAA.
In the following tweet, Rittenhouse said that he was already planning to move to Texas by the end of June. The teenager made headlines when he was 17 years old when he drove from his home in Antioch, Illinois, to Kenosha, Wisconsin, and tried to help contain violent protests against a Black man's shooting by a White officer.
Rittenhouse said he was trying to aid law enforcement and protect property amid the widespread civil unrest. He was accused of fatally shooting two men and injuring another with his rifle. However, the teenager was acquitted of multiple felony charges during his high-profile trial, in which he argued that he acted in self-defense.
According to Insider, Rittenhouse took online classes at Arizona State University last year but said he dropped them during his homicide trial and was planning to resume them afterward. In response to him being acquitted, students from the school demanded that he be expelled from the university.
Denying the Claims
The school previously said that the teenager was no longer attending the university, following its students' demands. The victims of the fatal shooting by Rittenhouse were Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber, and Gaige Grosskreutz.
The teenager also said recently that he was planning to file lawsuits against media outlets and United States President Joe Biden over defamation allegations after being inspired by the defamation trial between actors Amber Heard and Johnny Depp.
Rittenhouse's claims come as Blinn College, which is a community college based in Brenham with a location near Texas A&M in Bryan, has a strong transfer partnership with the latter without being part of the Texas A&M system. The college said in 2020 that 53% of its transfer students continued their studies at Texas A&M.
Despite this, transferring from Blinn College to Texas A&M was not guaranteed as a student is first required to have at least a 2.5-grade point average and 24 hours of coursework that is transferable to be considered for the process, the Texas Tribune reported.
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