- My name is Amy
 Gutmann and I'm first.
As a young woman, my
mother worked tirelessly
to help her family survive
   The Great Depression.
My father escaped Nazi Germany
and saved his entire
   family from extermination.
Neither had the chance to
   get a college education.
So I didn't know much
 about higher education
or just how high I could aim.
One day, our family
  doctor told me
"Amy, think big and
   apply to a great college.
There's financial
   aid to help you."
That advice motivated
 me to apply to
Radcliffe College at Harvard.
Where I attended on
  a full scholarship.
My college experience
forever changed my life.
Now as Penn's president,
my greatest passion
is getting the word
  out to students.
There are many excellent
places like Penn
out there with resources
to help you succeed.
It pays to aim high.
At Penn, one in eight freshmen
are first-generation
  college students.
If you apply and get in,
Penn's all-grant no
  loan financial aid
ensures that you can
  afford to come here.
Work hard.
Let nothing deter you.
And plan to be first.
You will find that this
   is where you truly belong.
