BuckyBot - Smart course search, degree tracker & AI advisor

About

Your AI-powered course companion for UW-Madison. Stop juggling tabs–search smarter, plan better, and actually understand your degree progress. BuckyBot transforms course planning from a frustrating scavenger hunt into a conversation. Ask questions like a human, get answers that actually help. Ever found yourself with 15 browser tabs open trying to answer one simple question: "What classes do I still need?" Or spent an hour researching if a course is actually as hard as everyone says? BuckyBot was born from those exact frustrations. 

✦ What Makes BuckyBot Different We're not just another course catalog wrapper. BuckyBot actually understands what you're asking and connects the dots between enrollment data, grade distributions, degree requirements, and professor ratings–information that's normally scattered across a dozen different websites. 

⭐ Features That Actually Matter ⭐ 

✔️ Talk to Your Course Catalog Forget cryptic search filters. Just ask: "What are easy 3-credit classes for spring?" or "Show me upper-level CS courses with high ratings." BuckyBot gets it.
 ✔️ DARS Reports That Make Sense Upload your DARS and get a clean, visual breakdown of what you've finished and what's left. No more decoding that confusing PDF trying to figure out if you're on track.
✔️ See What Grades Students Actually Get Every course shows real MadGrades data. Want to filter for classes where most students get above a 3.5? Done. No more going in blind. 
✔️ Professor Ratings, Right Where You Need Them RateMyProfessor scores appear directly in your search results. Make informed decisions without the tab-switching workout. 
✔️ Recommendations That Get Smarter The more you use BuckyBot, the better it understands your academic vibe. Discover courses that align with what you've already taken and actually enjoy. 
✔️ Zero Context-Switching Everything happens right on the enrollment page. Your courses, your requirements, your planning–all in one view. 

🎯 The Real Benefits
Stop Second-Guessing: Make course decisions backed by real data, not hearsay
Actually Graduate On Time: See exactly what requirements you're missing before it's too late
Find Hidden Gems: Discover great courses you'd never find scrolling alphabetically through listings
Plan Smarter, Not Harder: What used to take hours of research now takes minutes
Reduce Schedule Anxiety: Know what you're getting into before you hit "enroll"

🔐 Privacy? We Got You Built by students who actually care about this stuff. We need certain permissions to make the magic happen, but your data stays yours. We're not here to sell your course history to sketchy ad networks. Your academic journey is personal. We keep it that way. 

💬 Questions? Ideas? Bugs? . Hit us up at [email protected] – we actually read and respond to every message. 

✦ Course planning that doesn't suck. Made for Badgers, by Badgers. Free for all UW-Madison students. Because navigating college is expensive enough already.