Penn's New Early Decision Program: Starting a Predatory Trend?

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Some discussion in the Penn forum a few weeks ago:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/1906041-penn-early-decision-now-restrictive-early-decision.html

Some did muse whether this isn’t aimed at the EA applicants of the schools you mention and if the unintended result would be a lower quality ED applicant pool for Penn.