<p>Which school has the best website?</p>
<p>Brown's is pretty awesome. UCLA's is nice (a strong sense of pride pervades the website), and Berkeley's is pretty nice, too. MIT's is well designed, though at times it feels somewhat artificial.</p>
<p>I'm not too fond of Stanford's (difficult to navigate, too many subsections, too much damned red). Some of Duke's pages look like a preteen designed them. Harvard's seems pretentious, though that may be just by association. =p</p>
<p>I'd say that Berkeley's is pretty confusing when looking for specific info and that Brown's just doesn't offer all the info. But Brown's is very pretty and for sheer magnitude of info Berkeley still deserves props.</p>
<p>Niftiest design: (another B college!) Bennington
Best copywriting: University of Chicago. By far.
Fanciest multimedia/slickest presentation: US Air Force Academy</p>
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<p>Hm, really? I've always found it very easy to find things on the site, since it's all grouped nicely. (Could be just that I've perused it a lot.)</p>
<p>Oh, and Chicago's is pretty awesome too. It's as though they took the campus and made their site reflect its style.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt. <a href="http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Admissions/%5B/url%5D">http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Admissions/</a>
Trinity for it's "virtual visit". <a href="http://virtualvisit.trinity.edu/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://virtualvisit.trinity.edu/index.html</a></p>
<p>Most college websites are terrible (compared to businesses, news/sports organizations, etc)</p>
<p>As a non-homer pick, I like Brown's website.</p>
<p>I don't think any of those mentioned compare to Reed's website. Love the dogs. The "blue bridge" at night is enough to make me want to go there, but alas, way too late.</p>
<p>I like MIT's website.</p>
<p>And as a dissenting opinion, I found Brown's website difficult.</p>
<p>Brown's website is fantastic. And I like Princeton's as well.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University. The website is far nicer than the campus.</p>
<p>Brown's website is nice, but it is too brown, and they probably should have cut down on the empty space. </p>
<p>RISD's website, although fascinating, has many problems. One of them is that its "floating stream" navigation doesn't conform to W3C standards for the disabled, and blind people would have a very hard time navigating the site, mainly because it can't be read by screen-readers. RISD should probably fix that. </p>
<p>My favorites are probably UPenn (despite my dislike of the school ;) ), Caltech, CMU, Princeton, and Virginia. </p>
<p>Those I found to be sub-par:</p>
<p>Harvard, Northwestern (they have "Robbery" as the only item on their breaking news section), Columbia, UChicago, Berkeley (too much yellow!), Duke (most awkward webdesign I've ever seen). </p>
<p>Website that has good features but is obnoxious: Drew, RISD.</p>
<p>ew i hate caltech's!! haha.</p>
<p>anyhow i like brown's, USC's, UCLA's (it's easy to follow), and Cal State long beach's!! all the other cal state websites are such a mess, but long beach's is suprisingly nice.</p>
<p>Do you test websites for being able to find specific information? How do college websites do in answering such specific questions as </p>
<p>a) do you superscore the SAT? </p>
<p>b) what's the last date I can take a test for regular decision? </p>
<p>c) are you need blind in admission? </p>
<p>d) do you guarantee to meet 100 percent of demonstrated financial need with institutional aid? </p>
<p>e) do you have a legacy preference? </p>
<p>f) is a grandchild of an alumnus a legacy? </p>
<p>g) is it better to get a B in an honors class or an A in a regular class? </p>
<p>h) are Iranians white or Asian? </p>
<p>i) do freshman grades count? </p>
<p>j) do you require a foreign language? </p>
<p>k) do you have substance-free dorms? </p>
<p>l) can I keep a horse on campus? </p>
<p>m) what are my chances?</p>
<p>tokenadult's post sums it up: how easily can you find the information you're looking for? An otherwise terrific looking website quickly becomes maddening if you can't find what you need.</p>
<p>MIT's is good, as is University of Chicago's.</p>
<p>Caltech's is a little artificial-looking, but the way it works is pretty cool (click on something, it appears below -- click on another, it appears to the side, etc.).</p>
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<p>Yep. The students go to those unusable pretty college websites, and then they come over to plain gray CC to ask their informational questions. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html</a> </p>
<p><a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html</a></p>
<p>The University of Notre Dame has just re-vamped its website. I think it looks great and offers current video of various happenings, topics, etc. that is updated regularly. Check it out!</p>