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Mindy Kaling’s Brother Reveals He Pretended to Be Black to Get Into Medical School
Mediaite.com ^ | 11:51 am, April 6th, 2015 | by Tina Nguyen

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
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1 posted on 04/06/2015 10:18:51 AM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Soul Man - The Sequel

2 posted on 04/06/2015 10:21:36 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: drewh

I just love rags to riches success stories.


3 posted on 04/06/2015 10:22:04 AM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: dfwgator
Reverse Soul Man!


4 posted on 04/06/2015 10:23:23 AM PDT by drewh
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To: dfwgator

You beat me to it!........................


5 posted on 04/06/2015 10:24:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: drewh

U. Chicago is a tough school that has not bought into grade inflation. There is nothing about a 3.1 GPA from Chicago.


6 posted on 04/06/2015 10:24:41 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: drewh

Whatever happened to Are Dawn Chong?..........................


7 posted on 04/06/2015 10:25:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: drewh

Just exposing the soft expectations of lowered standards..

Interestingly enough, he was NOT able to cut it at SLU and dropped out.


8 posted on 04/06/2015 10:25:19 AM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: drewh

Rae..............


9 posted on 04/06/2015 10:25:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: AndyJackson
U of Chicago is one of the world's great universities!


10 posted on 04/06/2015 10:26:01 AM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Vijay

11 posted on 04/06/2015 10:26:25 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: drewh

He’s just transracial! (and if you disagree you are a hateful bigot !)

/s


12 posted on 04/06/2015 10:27:48 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: GraceG

I am very much black... yes?


13 posted on 04/06/2015 10:28:36 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: drewh
The United States Supreme Court has decided that a person is an "gender" or "race" that they "feel" that they are.

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.

14 posted on 04/06/2015 10:28:37 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If obama speaks and th<uere is no one the<ire to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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To: drewh

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.


15 posted on 04/06/2015 10:28:45 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: GraceG
Cue the script writers for 'Soul Man 2' starring Aziz Ansari...

Chokal-Ingam hinted that his plot to become black wasn’t exactly a smooth ride, however. “Cops harassed me. Store clerks accused me of shoplifting. Women were either scared of me or couldn’t keep their hands off me,” he wrote. “What started as a devious ploy to gain admission to medical school turned into twisted social experiment.”


16 posted on 04/06/2015 10:29:17 AM PDT by drewh
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Elizabeth Warren didn't have any trouble when SHE said she was an Indian.

17 posted on 04/06/2015 10:29:41 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: drewh

I know of a Kenyan-Arab-Mulatto that did the same type of thing.


18 posted on 04/06/2015 10:30:37 AM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: drewh

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...


19 posted on 04/06/2015 10:30:37 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Red Badger

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!


20 posted on 04/06/2015 10:30:42 AM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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