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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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