Undergraduate Women Mentoring: Mission Statement

The principal goal of the GSO undergraduate women mentoring program is to
encourage female undergraduate math majors at UCLA to pursue graduate
degrees in mathematics and statistics.  To this end, GSO (with the help of
the Undergraduate Math Students' Association) will pair female graduate
students from the mathematics and statistics departments with female
undergraduate math majors.

Benefits to undergraduate women:
- Increased visibility of women in mathematics and statistics
- Someone to ask about life as a graduate student
- A source for advice and candid opinions about Research Experiences for
  Undergraduates (REU) programs, graduate programs and the graduate school
  application process 
- A role model
- Inclusion of women in a mathematical community

Benefits to graduate mentors:
- An opportunity to reduce the rate of attrition of women in mathematics
- Participation in a network of women in math at UCLA