Hi everyone — I hope you’re all doing well! 🙂
Over the past few months, I’ve been building a web app called CourseRadar to help make the UPenn Online experience more transparent, data-driven, and community-oriented.
The idea started from wanting a better way to:
- compare courses beyond scattered Slack/Reddit messages,
- plan future semesters more strategically,
- understand workload and difficulty trends over time,
- and preserve useful knowledge/resources from previous students in a structured way.
Some of the current features include:
• Anonymous course reviews (after verifying your .edu email)
• Semester-by-semester course planning to map out your graduation timeline
• GPA tracking + cumulative GPA projections
• Course comparisons across difficulty, workload, ratings, and grading trends
• Historical trends showing how courses evolve over time
• Community-submitted grade data points to better understand grading distributions
• AI-powered course recommendations based on completed coursework
• Professor and TA ratings/leaderboards
• Curated course resources (syllabi, YouTube videos, notes, URLs, etc.) recommended by past students
The long-term goal is to create something that genuinely helps current and future students make more informed academic decisions and reduce some of the uncertainty around course selection.
I’d genuinely love your feedback, suggestions, and feature ideas — especially from people currently in MCIT, MAS-CS, MSE-AI, or other Penn Engineering Online programs.
If you’d like to try it out:
CourseRadar.io
Thanks everyone — and I hope it becomes a useful resource for the community!
p.s.: all the mymcit and mcitcentral reviews have been migrated over to CourseRadar!