One of the more interesting parts of the college application process (there weren't many) was comparing the websites of top-tier schools. Echoing what the writer said - it's amazing how poor the structure, workflow, security and general design the web systems of these schools with $X-billion endowment are.

MIT stood out as an exception; the rest I dealt with were par at best. Fast forward two years - I now attend an ivy league school with what I would consider a laughable website and data storage system.

"You must close your browser to log out of the system" - I don't even have to probe to know it's bad.