Amy Gutmann - Early Admissions Aren't the Problem - washingtonpost.com: "At the University of Pennsylvania and many other colleges and universities, early admissions have not been an impediment to improving access, and abolishing the practice will do no significant social good. Because of our outreach activities and improved financial aid policies, many more minorities and low-income students are applying to Penn for both early and regular decisions. Once again this year we enrolled a record number (and proportion) of minority students.

But we will accomplish nothing significant in improving access for students from low- and middle-income families unless we focus our attention on strengthening our need-based financial aid program and our outreach to students who attend schools where they have not been informed about the availability of need-based financial aid."