We did look at the academic details as major criteria in making a list of schools for application. In addition to the online information, our high school senior also got a lot of “insiders’ info” from siblings and their high school friends, which was very helpful. However, in January (after the application deadline) my child’s first-choice school redesigned its websites and we were kind of shocked to find that the CS department made unappealing policy changes by capping the courses a CS major can take and putting most courses on lottery. We also learned that the changes started in fall 2018 but no info could be found about them on the school websites at that time. The policy changes seemed to be decided during summer but outsiders had no idea. We suspect that the capping and lottery of CS courses may reduce the yield of potential CS majors at the school.