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Diablo Valley College
Gamma Psi Gazette Fall 2015 August— December Alpha Gamma sigma: Gamma psi chapter
On October 28, AGS had two set or pre-
senters from different colleges that gave a Power-
Point presentation on their college's requirements,
statistics, and other facts. The first to give their
PowerPoint was Silvia Stacy Gilles, who is the as-
sistant 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 communi-
ty 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 applica-
tions. Kevin and his partner discussed their pro-
cess of applying to UC Berkeley and their experi-
ence currently at Berkeley. (continued on page 3)
UC Berkeley and UC Davis
Transfer Seminar
October Edition
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On the right is Kevin and his roommate
posing for a picture
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On the Left is Kevin taking turns give the
presentation with his friend
On the bottom is Silvia giving her
presentation on UC Davis
Puzzle Column by Ajay Kumar Raja
Puzzle 1
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer is tied to a corner of a small rec-tangular shed that is 3 ft. by 4 ft. The length of the rope restrain-ing Rudolf is 7 ft. The area over which Rudolf can graze is Nπ 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 con-
sultant to a fraud case, concerning the Grinch Brothers, an inter-
nationally 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 embezzle-
ment and robbery, which they divided evenly among them-
selves. 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 ma-te. 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)
The first TED conference was in 1984 and has been held an-nually 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 mem-bers to improve their speech and presentation skills. The rules are simple; have a five to seven minute presentation and must have a Pow-erPoint. The applicants are judged based on techniques such as how you're speaking, appeal of Power-Point, and posture. Their presenta-tion 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. Omar’s 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 real-
ly important to him. Adeel topic is a
little “darker” as he puts it, with his
subject being addiction. Adeel is go-
ing 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 sub-
ject 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.
TED Talk Preparations
Puzzle Column by Ajay Kumar Raja
Solutions:
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer: N = 43
The Grinch Brothers: 7 brothers
All of Claus’s Men: 27732 elf workers
One of the bigger subjects discussed by both presentation was TAP and TAG even though Berke-ley 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 trans-ferable classes and what your GPA is with just those courses. TAP al-lows the applicant to organize and structure his current class’s 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 Guar-antee, an application that is on the same page. Silvia mentioned that if you apply with TAG You must also still apply to UC’s through the nor-mally application as well. TAG is very strict with with their appli-cants; they verify your course and GPA requirements closely and will
deny your TAG if you do not fulfil all of the requirements. The results of the TAG application will be giv-en to the applicants by around No-vember 12. All applications are looked at concurrent with other stu-dents, to allow students to use all their time putting everything in cor-rectly. However, if your grades drop then your TAG can be revoked.
UC Application Seminar
UC Berkeley & UC Davis
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 it’s close to home and that there are so many clubs and extracurric-ular available. Also some cons for Berkeley such as the class sizes which are much bigger than DVC’s 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 ad-mitted. There presentation include helpful information such as the top 5 majors at Berkeley, which are electri-cal engineering and computer science, economics, computer science, poly science, and business admin-istration.
They discus the requirement to transfer into Berkeley with the seven course breadth requirements and minimum grade point average of 3.0 and also dis-cussed other prerequisite course for majors. They ex-plained 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.
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 you’re 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, stu-dents must complete 60 semester units or 90 quarter units with certain number of require-ments in certain field, such as two transferable college courses in English composition. Last year there was a 54.1% acceptance rate, includ-ing TAG, and an average GPA admitted of about 3.32 to 3.77.
President: Joanne Mercado
Vice President: Adrian Yuen
Secretary: Mary Latif
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
Questions? Comments?
Get in contact with us!
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Treasurer: [email protected]
Secretary: [email protected]
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Newsletter Editor: [email protected]
Diablo Valley College AGS Officers
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Advisors
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!
Chris Capozzo
Ivan Thomas-Bignami
