biochimie

@emilywantstogetin, Well, there is actually something you can do, but likely not of any immediate benefit to you. I would write a series of letters to the chain of responsibility of that office, from the office supervisor straight on down the line to the university president, explaining just how unprofessional and unacceptable it is to have put you in that situation. While some of then will probably scoff at it, university presidents/deans don't like hearing those kinds of things, especially when they involve another school in whose eyes they now look incompetent. They keep on doing these things, saying nothing you can do about it, and get away with it, until... someone puts a stop to it. You never know, might or might not do any good anyway, but I'd do it (I'm loathe to let stuff like that slip by, esp. if personally affects me), and then maybe the next applicant won't find themselves in this situation. Just my two cents anyway.

Yeah I guess it may seem kind of petty, but it does also seem silly to me that some of these websites or online apps are barely even functional. I'd like to pretend this isn't true, but honestly when culling the herd of applications to a reasonable number, I have to be honest and say this was a factor (albeit very, very small). For schools I was only marginally interested in in the first place, I'm just not going to spend hours and hours using google to get the information I need on very basic things like faculty research interests. And even with schools at the top of the list, it still leaves a sour taste. Anyway, yeah I'm sure it's not their top priority (nor should it be), but for schools that may be trying to improve recruitment, their internet presence is certainly something worth spending a least a moment's time on. After all, it's usually our first interaction with most of them, and you never get a second chance at first impressions, or so I'm told.