As his niece Mary Trump reveals in her book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, his older sister, Maryanne, had been doing his homework for him while he was at Fordham, and his brother, Freddy, reached out to a friend in the Penn admissions office. Even with those advantages, “Donald worried that his grade point average, which put him far from the top of his class, would scuttle his efforts to get accepted. To hedge his bets he enlisted Joe Shapiro, a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker, to take his SATs for him.” It took a
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