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Vijay Chokal-Ingam, brother of Fox star Vera Mindy Chokalingam (known professionally as Mindy Kaling), says he pretended to be African American in 1998-99 in order to gain admission to medical school:

In my junior year of college, I realized that I didn’t have the grades or test scores to get into medical school, at least not as an Indian-American.

Still, I was determined to become a doctor and I knew that admission standards for certain minorities under affirmative action were, let’s say… less stringent?

So, I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man. My change in appearance was so startling that my own fraternity brother 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.

Vijay the Indian-American frat boy become Jojo the African American Affirmative Action applicant to medical school.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27619171)

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pretty dumb for an azn too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27619280)

Vijay Chokal-Ingam ‏@VijayIngam

@kristagermanis I'm a Resume writer, career coach, graduate and college admissions consultant; not an actor

"Ok, step one, change your name to Remus Wainwright."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27633142)

Remember Kaavya Viswanathan

http://www.kramerlevin.com/kviswanathan/

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2840884&mc=49&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27619286)

that's has to be like 30% of them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27640676)

https://thisistwitchy.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/which-one-got-into-medical-school.png?w=430&h=187

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27619293)

this is an unhinged human being

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27619306)

2. No legit American Nigger has a 3.1/31 MCAT. A 31 MCAT means you have some decent horsepower, its like running a 4.6 40YD dash, not superfast, but pretty damn fast. If you have a 31 MCAT but 3.1, it means you are a fuckup and lazy underachiever unless you went to a known hard ass UG with no grade inflation (of which there are few these days).

3. A MCAT 31 would put you in the 95 percentile of legit nigger applicants. A solid black will have have a 26 MCAT/3.6 GPA or something like that. The GPA will be high because if the nigger is a striver, all the college professors will be behind the kid, and the grade inflation will really show. Shitlib professors really love to back a kid like this, and it will show in the grades, but the MCAT always suffers because the black kid lacks the horsepower.

4. This shit wouldn't have fooled me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27619411)

So many stupid white motherfuckers these days CANNOT for the life of them RECOGNIZE a true mixed hi yella, quadroon type nigger. Motherfuckers, we are all not black as fucking Jack Johnson.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27619446)

You have heard me talk shit about stupid fucking cumskins, niggers, Westernized AZN sluts, degenerate JEWS, etc.

No one gets cut slack. IRL am a very "white looking" mulatto, the kind that probably would have "passed" in Jim Crow days. Proud Scots-Irish/West African mongrel. 100% American on both sides for many generations.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27619573)

The essential truth for so many of you "bubble kids" is that you are spineless and have never faced true adversity. Although you realize to stay away from Blacks like you see in the Wire, you have never been socialized to those within your core peer group who would compete with you in the classroom yet not hesitate to mop the floor with your ass when you displayed retarded behavior -- those don't exist within today's America.

I am one of the youngest people in the USA that still has legit childhood experiences of old school prejudice in the South.

You are a child.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27619793)

LJL at thinking black doctors go serve inner city populations rather than boost themselves into ROAD. which ghetto doesn't have a TTT indian/middle eastern doctor?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27619457)

NIGGER BINDI, ACING S-A-T-S

NIGGER BINDI, THE KIND OF NIGGER I'D LIKE TO MEET (hr person)

NIGGER BINDI, I don't believe you, you're not the truth

No one could look like you, MERCY!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27620619)

Mindy Kaling's brother says pretending to be black got him into med school

Mindy Kaling's brother Vijay Chokalingam says he got into med school in the late '90s by pretending to be black to take advantage of affirmative action -- which kind of sounds like something Dr. Mindy Lahiri's younger brother Rishi might do on "The Mindy Project."

Yeah, that'd be the Rishi who wrecked TV Mindy's credit score and was employed as a weed dealer before TV Mindy found him another line of work.

Now Vijay wants to write a book about his med school application experience, if only someone would offer him a deal.

Um, did he mention the famous Mindy Kaling is his sister? Oh yeah, he did, on the "About" page of Almost Black, his website soliciting a book deal. She's written a book too, he notes. A New York Times bestseller. But he says she told him his book would "bring shame" on the family. That is in the FAQ section of the website soliciting a book deal.

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"She actually said, 'This book will bring shame on our family.' The rest of my family does not agree with the book. Still, they respect my right to make my own decisions with my career," he writes.

But Kaling -- real name Vera Mindy Chokalingam -- appears not to have been a part of her big brother's process at all.

Her rep said in a statement to Us Weekly on Monday that the 35-year-old actress has been estranged from her brother for years.

"She was not aware of his decision to apply to medical school under a different name and race," the statement said.

Mmm-kayyyyy.

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Chokalingam says he "realized" during his junior year of college -- "After watching my better-qualified Indian-American friends get rejected from medical school" -- that he didn't have the grades or test scores to get in. And he says he really wanted to be a doctor. And he thought the standards for other minorities would be "less stringent."

So he decided to use his middle name Jojo as his first name, join a black students organization and say on his applications that he was African American.

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"I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man," Chokalingam said on a website promoting his book idea. "My change in appearance was so startling that my own fraternity brothers didn’t recognize me at first."

He says he "likely" gained admission to med school because he fudged the race thing, and has posted his letter of acceptance from St. Louis University's medical school and a transcript of the first of the two years he attended classes.

Of course, even a "twisted social experiment," as he calls it, needs some controls before its results can be seen as valid, and there's no indication that he ever represented himself as Indian American and was turned down.

He later was accepted into an MBA program at UCLA with his racial identity intact, he says, and since graduating in 2010 has been working as a professional resume writer and grad-school application consultant.

Pretty convenient that he has Mindy Kaling on his resume.

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27633111)

"Jojo the African American Affirmative Action applicant" a remarkably racist phrase.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27633129)

Soon to be featured on FOXNEWS i'm sure.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27633147)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27633232)

in other news, a guy passed himself off as a girl and dominated on the basketball court

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#27640738)

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/late-night

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2846809&forum_id=2#38358038)