<p>We are in the process of making some updates to our website, <a href="https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/%5B/url%5D">https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/</a> , to make it more user-friendly. As many of you are students or parents going through the admissions or college search process, we'd love to have your feedback. Is there anything that you found particularly difficult to navigate on our site, and suggestions for how you might like it to change? Is there anything you think we're doing particularly well, and want to make sure we don't change-- or suggest that we extend to other portions of our site?</p>
<p>Feel free to post any comments or suggestions on this thread, or, if you don't feel comfortable sharing them publicly, send them to me as a private message. I can't guarantee that we can make all suggested changes, but we do want to make our website a place that is an easy to use (and not horribly confusing) source of information during the admissions process.</p>
<p>I have been in the website quite a few times, and the only problem I have faced continuously is to get to the admission requirements for 1st year applicants. After you click the “Admissions and Aid”, in the new screens, the rest of the page with quotes and admission events always distracts me from seeing the “College Admissions” text. And after you click college admissions, you will have to find the text “Information For 1st Year Applicants”. This, to me, seemed hidden in my window and had to focus on many texts to locate it.
This is just my opinion, may be someone else find the way it is easier. I have been to various college’s websites but only few, like UChicago’s website, continues to baffle me. I can’t think of a reasonable solution off the top of my head, but maybe you can make the font bigger as to catch attention immediately…</p>
<p>I think a major issue with the website is why there is so much of chicago advertising for itself when all a user wants to do figure out the requirements for admissions. You go to collegeadmissions and you need to find an apply now button in one corner. The first time I went there, I thought I was on the wrong page. </p>
<p>There is just too much information on that page as of now that is irrelevant.</p>