<p>After this is all said and done, don't you think we ought to post feedback to all these schools on how good/bad they handled the process from a "consumer" standpoint?</p>
<p>How would we gauge how well they handled the process? The only thing I can come up with whether I got in or not. ;)</p>
<p>hehehe, excellent response burbs</p>
<p>I'm talking about things like:
1) helpfulness/attitude of phone responders
2) navigation ease/negotiability of the web site
3) efficiency of communication (e.g., logging materials and providing an accessible mechanism to verify that; equipping you with a decent means of accessing the decision,etc.)</p>
<p>I found a HUGE difference in schools. Two of the Ivies were COMPLETELY out of control/terrible to try to communicate with. They lost things repeatedly, logged things in wrong, were SO SLOW with verifying receipt, had pretentious, condescending phone people, had ridiculously confusing websites that contradicted what they said in printed materials. In contrast, most of the others were very impressive, buttoned-up, had their t's crossed and i's dotted. Persoanlly, the "consumer presentation" of the 2 bad ones gave me 2nd and 3rd thoughts about being an undergraduate peon at those 2 places.</p>
<p>One thing i know with many colleges is that the intranet stuff they have for its students is completely different from the regular internet stuff available for everyone. For instance, pton's website is a disaster, but like my friend was showing me around the stuff he can access as a pton student, they have their own ****ing ebay! How awesome is that? And like he showed me this homepage thing which has like his schedule and upcoming events around campus and everything. I think alot of schools spend much more time on what their students will use than the general public.</p>
<p>i think princeton is good.....with the process</p>
<p>Princeton did a crackerjack job with its new website.</p>
<p>princeton is good with the process</p>
<p>the schools that were the least professional were upenn( very confusing app in 1 pdf document with different forms in different locations) and georgetown(which had an undecipherablewebsite)</p>
<p>I think Williams had the worst website....</p>
<p>i thought princeton was really good. the application was easy to find and fill out on their website. ugh i was helping my friend with her usc one and it was impossible, seriously so bad!</p>
<p>Oh yeah USC was horrible.....I hated that section where you basically had to copy classes and grades from your transcript to theirs. I mean wt* was the point of that?!?!</p>
<p>haha that's exactly what i was helping her with. oh and plus if u have certain servers (like usually i use firefox b/c then i get less pop-ups) it doesn't give u a space to put ur password when u log in. so then u can log in. its so stupid. like there's a place to put ur name, but no password spot!</p>
<p>the upenn app was worse, all the documents were in 1 pdf with different pages of different documents in diferent locations</p>
<p>uh, firefox isn't a server--it's an app, a web browser</p>
<p>firefox (or any browser, for that matter) shouldn't mess up text fields like that -- if u give me the link i can try it out...</p>
<p>The Princeton people were really friendly when I called. But there have been horror stories about Penn which I didnt try to verify :p</p>
<p>the princeton website is a lot better now, but there are still a lot of old pages that haven't been updated, a lot of them are important pages, too.</p>
<p>is moxilla firefox different from firefox? i don't remember the link tho, sorry. but when i went into my sbc yahoo dsl app or web browser or w/e it worket there.</p>
<p>georgetown's website was incomprehensible. i couldn't figure out how to find any information and had to use the search function just to find where their online application was.</p>