"1 The man who faked his race to get into medical school
Sitcom actress Mindy Kaling's big brother, Vijay Chokal-Ingam, is claiming that he hatched a twisted scheme in the late 1990s by posing as a black man to get into medical school.
...says that in 1998, he realized he didn't have a good enough GPA or MCAT score to get into medical school.
His GPA was 3.1, and his MCAT score was 31, which ranks in the 80-85 percentile for the test.
"So, I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man."
He apparently even joined the Organization of Black Students and went by his "embarrassing middle name," he says.
"Vijay the Indian-American frat boy become Jojo the African American Affirmative Action applicant to medical school."
Before long, Chokal-Ingam says he was interviewing at Harvard and Columbia, and found himself on wait lists at the University of Pennsylvania, Washington University and Mt. Sinai – despite his relatively mediocre 3.1 GPA and his family's considerable wealth.
A Saint Louis University spokeswoman disputed the account, saying that race never played a role in Chokal-Ingam's admission...
Chokal-Ingam wound up dropping out of St. Louis University Medical School two years after he got in under false pretenses..."
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