2 Thursday, August 15, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS 7 8 3 1 8 6 2 9 3 6 9 7 2 5 7 3 4 8 1 2 3 1 7 6 1 7 6 2 © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. Generate and solve Sudoku, Super Sudoku and Godoku puzzles at sudokusyndication.com! Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 3/17/09 1:03 PM ENDINGS puzzle by sudokusyndication.com Admissions staff talks review process Kedra Ishop, Erica Sanders discuss applications, incoming class Following heightened interest in the college admissions process nationwide, The Daily sat down with University of Michigan admissions officials to discuss the various pieces of the University’s process. The following interview with Erica Sanders, director of undergraduate admissions, and Kedra Ishop, vice provost for enrollment management, has been edited for length and clarity. The Michigan Daily: In light of the Varsity Blues scandal, there has been heightened attention on the college admissions process nationally. We would like to ask a few questions to clarify some of the lesser-known pieces of the process at the University. Please explain what happens to an application on the University’s end from the time the applicant presses submit to late August, when the incoming class arrives on campus. Erica Sanders: Once the students submit the application, we receive the application electronically. And the student then receives reminders to submit all the required documents: so the transcript, official submission of test scores (and) we require a teacher and a counselor letter of recommendation. And then once those documents are received, then we will start the evaluation process. So first, we process the app and then it goes on to evaluation process, all of our applications are evaluated at least twice. And within that process, the first evaluation is done randomly, we have about 100 external staff members that go through between 25 and 50 hours of training yearly, depending on how many years they’ve read for the office in the past and what has been the pattern of their read both speed and accuracy so that we’re able to ensure that everyone basically has the same level of competency with evaluation as they’re reading files. Once that initial read is done, they are assigned randomly — so they don’t read for any particular territory or volume of application, so that there isn’t a bias towards, ‘Oh I want all of my students to read it at x level,’ they’re read randomly. The second evaluation is done based upon a territory management system, and so our staff basically are split into in-state, out-of-state and international territories that they become far more familiar with. So they have more expertise in regards to this whole system, the grading system and curriculum choices that students may have available. City Council enters closed session after resident questions pedestian safety A special session of Ann Arbor City Council took place this Monday in regard of two court cases: Attorney General et al. v. Gelman Sciences, Inc., relating to the dioxane plume caused by Gelman Science, and Think Right Strategies v. City of Ann Arbor, which involves a conservative political consulting firm suing the city over anti- discrimination laws. The meeting started with public commentary from Chuck Lockes, a member of the citizen- run group A2 Safe Transport, which aims to improve pedestrian and transportation safety within the city. Lockes spoke about the statistical report he generated on pedestrian crashes in Ann Arbor from 2004 to 2016. He said he emailed the report to all councilmembers and only got a response from Chip Smith, D-5, whom Lockes said responded negatively to the report. Lockes urged the council to properly address the issue of endangering pedestrians. “Mr. Smith said he wanted to promote or get away from certain car cultures,” Lockes said. “I want to know, from him, if that means it’s okay for the city of Ann Arbor to accept a few extra casualties along the way. That seems to be the insinuation of what he is saying, from that logic.” The council then went into closed session under the Michigan Open Meetings Act for pending litigation set forth or incorporated in MCLA 15.268(E). Ongoing lawsuits focus of officials BARBARA COLLINS & ALEX HARRING Summer Managing News Editors ALEXANDRIA POMPEI/Daily University admissions staff speak on review proccess at the Student Activities Building Wednesday. 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