Posted on 04/06/2015 10:18:51 AM PDT by drewh
In a new website-slash-pitch for a memoir, Vijay Chokal-Ingam, the brother of comedian Mindy Kaling, reveals that he gamed the system and managed to get into medical school by claiming he was African-American.
Chokal-Ingam, who graduated from the University of Chicago with a meager 3.1 GPA, says that his ploy began after he saw his fellow Asian Indian-Americans, many of whom had higher grades, fail to get into medical school. I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man, he wrote on his website, AlmostBlack.com. My change in appearance was so startling that my own fraternity brothers didnt recognize me at first. I even joined the Organization of Black Students and started using my embarrassing middle name that I had hidden from all of my friends since I was a 9 years old.
With this, Jojo managed to get into the selective Saint Louis University School of Medicine with the exact same application he used as an Indian man. As a fake black man, he allegedly secured interviews at nine highly selective medical schools, including Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania. As he told The New York Post:
I disclosed that I grew up in one of the wealthiest towns in Massachusetts, that my mother was a doctor, and that my father was an architect, he said Saturday, describing his med-school applications. I disclosed that I didnt receive financial aid from the University of Chicago, and that I had a nice car, he said. I was the campus rich kid, lets just put it on the table. And yet they considered me an affirmative-action applicant.
After two years at med school, Chokal-Ingam dropped out and began attending business school at the University of California Los Angeles as an Indian-American.
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I just love rags to riches success stories.
You beat me to it!........................
U. Chicago is a tough school that has not bought into grade inflation. There is nothing about a 3.1 GPA from Chicago.
Whatever happened to Are Dawn Chong?..........................
Just exposing the soft expectations of lowered standards..
Interestingly enough, he was NOT able to cut it at SLU and dropped out.
Rae..............
Vijay
He’s just transracial! (and if you disagree you are a hateful bigot !)
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I am very much black... yes?
Once consequence of this is that men dressed in women's clothing can use women's bathrooms, which the Left applauds.
Another consequence is that anybody can call themselves a black female and thereby avail themselves of the affirmative-action benefits that being a black female accrues.
Hmm, I wonder if asian students can simply claim to be “Native American Indians” from the pacific northwest in order to get into college and thwart the PC Quota system in place at colleges.
Chokal-Ingam hinted that his plot to become black wasnt exactly a smooth ride, however. Cops harassed me. Store clerks accused me of shoplifting. Women were either scared of me or couldnt keep their hands off me, he wrote. What started as a devious ploy to gain admission to medical school turned into twisted social experiment.
Elizabeth Warren didn't have any trouble when SHE said she was an Indian.
I know of a Kenyan-Arab-Mulatto that did the same type of thing.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement for black doctors...
Glad this guy exposed this nonsense (in case anyone still didn’t know).
Our government demands we treat blacks as equals, then treats them as little more than trained dogs...
Rae got older, and didn’t find as many good roles that allowed her to remain clothed. I don’t know why this fellow is outing himself now, when the student loan commission may decide to sue him for fraud. Brag about your crimes in private, not online!
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