Diablo Valley College

Gamma Psi Gazette

Alpha Gamma sigma: Gamma psi chapter

Fall 2015 August December

October Edition
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On the right is Kevin and his roommate
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On the Left is Kevin taking turns give the
presentation with his friend

UC Berkeley and UC Davis

Transfer Seminar
On October 28, AGS had two set or presenters from different colleges that gave a PowerPoint presentation on their college's requirements,
statistics, and other facts. The first to give their
PowerPoint was Silvia Stacy Gilles, who is the assistant director of admissions at UC Davis.
While our other presenter had a different
point of view with college admission, due to the
fact that they are previous students from community colleges. The presenter of UC Berkeley were
Kevin who was the vice president of AGS in 2013
through 2014, as well as a roommate and of Kevin.
These two took different point of view as
student filling out applications for colleges, instead
of Silvia perspective of reading student applications. Kevin and his partner discussed their process of applying to UC Berkeley and their experience currently at Berkeley. (continued on page 3)

On the bottom is Silvia giving her

presentation on UC Davis

Puzzle Column by Ajay Kumar Raja

Puzzle 1

TED Talk Preparations

The first TED conference
was in 1984 and has been held annually since 1990 with presenters
like Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates
and many others. This year AGS
decided to host their very own TED
talk competition to encourage members to improve their speech and
presentation skills. The rules are
simple; have a five to seven minute
presentation and must have a PowerPoint. The applicants are judged
based on techniques such as how
you're speaking, appeal of PowerPoint, and posture. Their presentation with be judged by their influence
on audience, content, originality and
thought provoking theme.
The three that were chosen among
the many were, Omar, Adeel, and
Carlos. Omars presentation is about
the corruption in FIFA. Omar choose
this because he loves soccer and
see it as the greatest sport in the
word and he is also interested in the
politics so learning and sharing to
people about FIFA corruption is really important to him. Adeel topic is a
little darker as he puts it, with his
subject being addiction. Adeel is going to explore both the definition and
the history of addiction. He wants to
share what it really is and how to get
over it. However, Carlos see is subject at hand to be even darker as
he states. Carlos topic is suicide,
the universal epidemic and it
doesn't show up in the media much
but it happens quite often, as he
puts it. These three will put to the
test on November fourth and AGS
societies Advisors and Toastmasters
will be judging.

Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer is tied to a corner of a small rectangular shed that is 3 ft. by 4 ft. The length of the rope restraining Rudolf is 7 ft. The area over which Rudolf can graze is N
square ft., where N is an integer. What is N? (solutions page 3)
Puzzle 2
The Grinch Brothers
You have been hired by Police Chief Nicholas as a civilian consultant to a fraud case, concerning the Grinch Brothers, an internationally infamous group of thieves and embezzlers. It is not
known exactly how many Grinch Brothers there are, though there
are at most 10. Chief Nicholas asks you, among other things, to
help ascertain the exact number of Grinch Brothers, so that this
information can be placed on wanted posters. He gives you some
basic known facts:
1) The brothers obtained an 6-figure fortune through embezzlement and robbery, which they divided evenly among themselves. An informer discovered that each brother has a whole
number of dollars from this fortune.
2) The same informer was also able to discover that the fortune
is a whole number of dollars. This whole number ends with
the digit 9 and has a digit sum (which is the sum of the digits
of the number) equal to 17.
How many Grinch brothers are there? (solutions page 3)
Puzzle 3
All of Claus's Men
Once upon a time, the great and mighty Santa Claus had
a huge army of elf workers. These elf workers were split into
12 troops with an equal number of elf workers in each troop.
Each troop was headed by 1 captain.
One day, a drunk witch, attempting to prove her powers to
a bartender, sent a curse upon 11 of the 12 captains. According
to the curse, on 11 consecutive weeks, one captain would die
with one bodyguard from his troop. The curse started with the
12th captain, who was eaten by a dragon along with his first mate. The elf workers were reassigned so that they would form 11
troops with an equal number of elf workers in each troop.
The next week, the captain of the 11th group was stabbed
in the back by his second mate, who was promptly declared a
traitor. The second mate was then stabbed in the back by the
third mate, who was declared a brave hero. The elf workers were
then again reassigned so that they would form ten equal groups.
This continued until there was one captain left with all of
the remaining elf workers. What is the minimum number of elf
workers before the curse started? Apart from those killed by the
curse, no other elf workers died. Captains are not considered elf
workers. (solutions next page)

UC Application Seminar
One of the bigger subjects
discussed by both presentation was
TAP and TAG even though Berkeley does not have TAP, Kevin still
gave some info about it. TAP is
Transfer Admission Planner, is a
program that will let you know
which of your courses are UC transferable classes and what your GPA
is with just those courses. TAP allows the applicant to organize and
structure his current classs and fu-

ture class to provide a path for the

applicant to follow. After you use
the TAP then the applicant can go
into TAG, Transfer Alliance Guarantee, an application that is on the
same page. Silvia mentioned that if
you apply with TAG You must also
still apply to UCs through the normally application as well. TAG is
very strict with with their applicants; they verify your course and
GPA requirements closely and will

UC Berkeley & UC Davis

Silvia talked about different facts about
UC Davis, like how it is the number one in the
world for agriculture and forestry and is ranked
9th among public research institutions with 104
majors and minors offered. Internship programs
are offered to get experience in the field youre
studying. Davis is competitive at a 2.4 GPA,
grade point average minimum, however the a
more competitive GPA is dictated by student
competition. Last year the minimum GPA was
2.8 for non competitive majors and 3.1-3.2 for
competitive majors. To transfer the Davis, students must complete 60 semester units or 90
quarter units with certain number of requirements in certain field, such as two transferable
college courses in English composition. Last
year there was a 54.1% acceptance rate, including TAG, and an average GPA admitted of
about 3.32 to 3.77.

deny your TAG if you do not fulfil

all of the requirements. The results
of the TAG application will be given to the applicants by around November 12. All applications are
looked at concurrent with other students, to allow students to use all
their time putting everything in correctly. However, if your grades drop
then your TAG can be revoked.

Kevin and his partner that were presenting are

both Integrative Bio majors. They talked about the pros
of Berkeley such as how it is great because its close to
home and that there are so many clubs and extracurricular available. Also some cons for Berkeley such as the
class sizes which are much bigger than DVCs class
size. They discuss some of the statistics of Berkeley
application, such as the competitiveness as shown by
the 22% of transfer applicants last year that were admitted. There presentation include helpful information
such as the top 5 majors at Berkeley, which are electrical engineering and computer science, economics,
computer science, poly science, and business administration.
They discus the requirement to transfer into
Berkeley with the seven course breadth requirements
and minimum grade point average of 3.0 and also discussed other prerequisite course for majors. They explained how thousands of students with 3.9-4.0 apply,
so Berkeley looks carefully at everything as well as
your personal qualities and interests. They look at your
application with about 50% academics, 35% personal
statement and 15% extracurricular, however every bit
matters.

Puzzle Column by Ajay Kumar Raja

Solutions:
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer: N = 43
The Grinch Brothers: 7 brothers
All of Clauss Men: 27732 elf workers

Diablo Valley College AGS Officers

President: Joanne Mercado
Vice President: Adrian Yuen
Secretary: Mary Latif

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Member of the month

For the month of October, the
member that has shown a lot of
dedication to the club, who has
gone above and beyond in
AGS, for October is Lauren
Older! Congratulations!

Treasurer: Gisela Ludiarto

ICC Rep.: Yuri Ushio
Community Service: Lauren Older
Marketing: Hannah Cho
Newsletter Editor: Ahmed Alhag
Historian: Gene Lee
Activates Coordinator: Kevin Lei
Public Relations: Ravil Kaliyeshev
Membership Chair: Yosef Ehsan

Diablo valley college AGS

Advisors

Chris Capozzo
Ivan Thomas-Bignami