RUME 27
2025
Alexandria, Virginia
Analyzing Student-Advisor Interactions During First-Year Undergraduate Mathematics Advising
Page: 1619
During pre-course-enrollment mathematics advising, incoming first-year undergraduate students meet one-on-one with a member of the mathematics department. Students with similar math backgrounds are not always recommended to take the same math courses. Despite having similar math backgrounds, students can end up with quite distinct course recommendations that vary widely in terms of their mathematical ambitiousness. This poster reports on this phenomenon and explores how gender mediates this advisor-student interaction and ultimately students' access to ambitious math coursework and persistence in math-intensive majors.