article_snippet.sent: Vijay Chokal-Ingam Chokal-Ingam claims that Vijay Chokal-Ingam posed as a black man while Vijay Chokal-Ingam applied to medical schools in 1998 because Vijay Chokal-Ingam believed Vijay Chokal-Ingam had a better chance of gaining acceptance .
article_snippet.sent: Chokal-Ingam shaved Chokal-Ingam head, trimmed Chokal-Ingam 'long Indian eyelashes' and joined the Organization of Black Students during the process.
article_snippet.sent: Chokal-Ingam change in appearance was 'so startling that my own fraternity brothers didn't recognize me'. '
article_snippet.sent: Vijay the Indian-American frat boy became Jojo the African American Affirmative Action applicant to medical school,' Chokal-Ingam said, claiming that Jojo was the middle name Chokal-Ingam was born with.
article_snippet.sent: Though Chokal-Ingam website, AlmostBlack.com, shows side-by-side qualifications and pictures of Chokal-Ingam as an Indian-American man (left) and a black man (right), Chokal-Ingam doesn't specify if Chokal-Ingam went through the same application process as an Inidan-American man as Chokal-Ingam
article_snippet.sent: As an Indian-American with a GPA of 3.1, MCAT of 31 and a member of the South Asian Student Association, Chokal-Ingam didn't think Chokal-Ingam'd get into medical school, but with a change of appearance and switch of student organization, Chokal-Ingam thought Chokal-Ingam could get in to some of the top schools in the nation. '
article_snippet.sent: Despite Chokal-Ingam startling claims, Chokal-Ingam fails to mention if Chokal-Ingam applied to the same schools at the same time as an Indian-American man.
article_snippet.sent: When Chokal-Ingam was finally accepted to St. Louis University School of Medicine,
article_snippet.sent: Indeed, Chokal-Ingam admits that Chokal-Ingam did not even complete Chokal-Ingam medical degree and dropped out before Chokal-Ingam qualified as a doctor.
article_snippet.sent: Chokal-Ingam found posing as a black person to be socially fascinating. '
article_snippet.sent: And though Chokal-Ingam claims Chokal-Ingam became a serious contender at schools across the nation as a black man, Chokal-Ingam doesn't specify if Chokal-Ingam went through the application process as an American-Indian man. '
article_snippet.sent: Chokal-Ingam seems to have assumed that Chokal-Ingam would've gotten nowhere as an Indian American applicant and dove head first into this poorly-conceived 'experiment' before determining otherwise,' Chokal-Ingam wrote.
highlights_snippet.sent: Vijay Chokal-Ingam claims Vijay Chokal-Ingam posed as a black man and was accepted into the St. Louis University School of Medicine in 1998 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: -Ingam decided Vijay Chokal-Ingam'd have a better chance of getting into medical school if Vijay Chokal-Ingam was black rather than an Indian-American man .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Tells of Vijay Chokal-Ingam experiences on Vijay Chokal-Ingam own website, Almost Black and criticizes affirmative action .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Chokal-Ingam claims Vijay Chokal-Ingam shaved Vijay Chokal-Ingam head, trimmed Vijay Chokal-Ingam 'long Indian eyelashes' and joined the Organization of Black Students .