"Too many redirects" on home page

[AlanLiu96]

Can be reproduced by

1. sign out
2. go to homepage

Expected: see homepage, but logged out Actual: Chrome error saying it redirects too many times

the homepage is throwing a 302 error which is then redirecting back to the homepage. I suspect it is caused by somehow not having permissions to access the home page while logged out?

Workaround:

1. go to /users/sign_in
2. sign in

[AlanLiu96]

It's occurring because of the call to check_colleges whenever the index page is hit, which unauthorized