Harvard University may be home to Al Gore next year – Al Gore 3rd, that is.
The 18-year-old son of the vanquished Democratic presidential candidate has reportedly been accepted at his father’s alma mater – where the veep is expected to be an also-ran in the race to become its next president.
Young Gore was admitted under the university’s “early-action program,” which means he has until May 1 to decide whether he wants to follow in the footsteps of his father and three older sisters, the Washington Post reports.
The junior Gore is a strapping, 230-pound senior at elite Sidwell Friends HS in Washington, where he starred in football as a linebacker.
The teen is also considering the University of Tennessee.
Gore family spokesman Camille Johnston declined to comment yesterday.
Harvard University spokesman Sally Bake also had no comment.
The veep, who graduated with honors from Harvard in 1969, is one of 500 nominees to succeed Neil Rudenstine, who plans to step down next summer.
But Robert Stone, chairman of Harvard’s search committee, said Gore won’t make the grade because the university is looking for “academic leaders who have spent much of their careers working in the educational-research domain.”
Young Gore made headlines in August when he was busted for speeding in North Carolina two days before the start of the Democratic National Convention.
The teen, whose near-death in a car accident as a child devastated his family, was charged with reckless driving Aug. 12 after state cops clocked his Oldsmobile at 97 mph in a 55-mph zone.
He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and was fined $125.
In 1986, the then 6-year-old boy was nearly killed when he was struck by a speeding car after leaving an Orioles baseball game in Baltimore with his parents.
“I watched in horror as he flew through the air, scraped along the pavement and then lay still,” Tipper Gore wrote in her book, “Picture This, A Visual Diary.”
Al Gore gave his son mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until an ambulance arrived, and the youth had to endure several surgeries to heal internal injuries.
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