In 2010, the UCLA mathematics department launched a scholarship opportunity for entering freshman students with exceptional background and promise in mathematics. We are able to offer one scholarship each year. The UCLA Math Undergraduate Merit Scholarship provides for full tuition, and a room and board allowance for 4 years, contingent on continued high academic performance. In addition, scholarship recipients follow an individualized accelerated program of study, as determined after consultation with UCLA faculty. The program of study leads to a Masters degree in Mathematics in four years.
More information and an application form for the scholarship can be found on the web at:
http://www.math.ucla.edu/ugrad/mums
To be considered for Fall 2018, candidates must apply for the scholarship and also for admission to UCLA on or before November 30, 2017.
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27 October, 2017 at 10:01 am
a
does this really matter? UCLA already gets very good students.
27 October, 2017 at 12:30 pm
Anonymous
How have previous fellows done so far?
28 October, 2017 at 7:18 am
Terence Tao
We’re generally pretty pleased with the performance so far. For instance, our MUMS fellows usually compete in our Putnam team competition, leading to some of the best performances UCLA has ever had (e.g., in 2013 we placed third in the entire country, and 6th in 2016). Of the three previous MUMS scholars who have graduated, one is a grad student at MIT, and another is at Chicago, but it is perhaps too early to judge their future academic career at this point. (But our earliest MUMS graduate does already have a publication in the mathematics research literature.)
29 October, 2017 at 1:17 pm
Anonymous
Breaking news, student gets a paper out of an REU
27 October, 2017 at 5:49 pm
Anonymous
Is a student already in university , perhaps in first or second year eligible for this scholarship?
28 October, 2017 at 7:12 am
Terence Tao
The eligibility requirements are listed at http://www.math.ucla.edu/ugrad/mums . In particular, the application is targeted at 12th graders. In principle there is some flexibility with regards to applicants who do not strictly obey all of the eligibility requirements, but the circumstances would have to be somewhat exceptional for such applicants to be considered ahead of those who do fulfil the requirements.
29 October, 2017 at 6:25 pm
dendisuhubdy
Reblogged this on Artificial Intelligence Research Blog.
30 October, 2017 at 10:06 am
Sunday Kelly
Hi good evening, i want to participate on it because i am a mathematical researcher
31 October, 2017 at 2:46 am
Anonymous
Too bad poor people from 3rd round countries (especially African ones) don’t have any prospects at getting a decent undergraduate education.
31 October, 2017 at 3:11 am
Robert J. III
Life ain’t easy … especially in academia :/
31 October, 2017 at 5:26 am
Terence Tao
This is a much larger problem than a single scholarship can solve, but MUMS is open to applicants from all countries, and in fact several of the previous scholars have come from middle-income countries such as Romania and Turkey. We’ve also received some decent applications from Africa in the past, and it’s not out of the question that one of the future scholars would come from that continent.
31 October, 2017 at 8:17 am
Exp
I assume that students from Trump’s Muslim ban can still apply?
1 November, 2017 at 8:17 am
thegregmartin
Terry, have all of the previous MUMS awardees been male? How is the department looking to encourage girls to apply for a prestigious scholarship, for which so many of the suggested qualifications are heavily male-typed?
1 November, 2017 at 8:54 am
Terence Tao
The six awardees so far have been male. (There was one year in which our top applicant was in fact female, but despite our best recruiting efforts, she declined the offer and went to Harvard instead.) Advertising the scholarship broadly has in fact been a challenge in recent years; several mailing lists of mathematically talented students that we had previously had permission to use have now been restricted to exclude advertising emails. Any suggestions along these lines would certainly be welcome.
26 December, 2017 at 3:46 pm
Peter Meehan
Am I right in saying that significance as in prime numbers is intimately connected with discovery/ or discoverability in the other areas of our knowledge to date ? (Euclid — Now, so to speak)..