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 didn’t 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 didn’t receive financial aid from the University of Chicago, and that I had a nice car,” he said. “I was the campus rich kid, let’s 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 am very much black... yes?
His name is Raj-er Sah-mith
The headline is misleading - it does not say "Harvard" in the headline at the source - did the source change it or did you make an error in entering the headline?
He did not get into Harvard Medical School.
Not “did” the same thing, he “IS DOING” the same thing; pulling off a fake act, aided and abetted by greedy fools.
I think he said he went to U of Chicago without loans. Don’t know if he accepted loans from medical school, but he’s from a wealthy family so perhaps no loans here.
Rae crossed Oprah and her career suddenly took a nosedive..............coincidence?...............
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rae_Dawn_Chong
Black Privilege?
Mindy is a funny gal. Loved her in The Office. But I don’t care about her brother.
Curried favor?
Sort of like when Obama pretended to be from Kenya.
Wait.....
Elizabeth Warren just found her campaign manager.
Somewhere, Allen Bakke is smiling.
Sad and disgusting that it even matters. Race shouldn’t help or hurt.
"Affirmative Action!"
.....because want you really, really want is unqualified doctors operating on you and unqualified judges dictating what your rights are.......
Hey, he’s more black than Liz Warren is Indian.
I had forgotten about their little tiff. Rae in effect called Oprah a brown-noser, and a fat bi**ch.
She later dug in deeper with, ‘Do I take it all back now? No!”
Most importantly of all, he’s not Northern European..
Yep, I remember the Bakke case because at the time I was applying for med school. After Bakke and noting the med school acceptance list at my university I quickly came to the conclusion that it was a fool’s errand. Since I was already married and about to be commissioned in the military I decided it was more important to go back on active duty as soon as possible.
The key name on my university list was a young woman who was a music major, having taken one biology course as an undergraduate. Her father and grandfather were prominent surgeons. Who you know and who you ....
If we had a Hispanic President like Jeb Bush this would never happen.
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