article_snippet.sent: You see, Chokalingam revealed that, as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Chokalingam engaged in a daring (Chokalingam view) or ridiculous and offensive (pretty much everyone else)
article_snippet.sent: Chokalingam had spent Chokalingam college years as a "hard-partying frat boy," and achieved a less than stunning 3.1 GPA.
article_snippet.sent: Upon facing graduation and exploring Chokalingam med school options, Chokalingam realized that fellow Indian-Americans with Chokalingam grades were getting turned down from the universities of Chokalingam choice — but that "black, Hispanic, and Native American applicants with my grades and test scores were much more likely to gain acceptance.
article_snippet.sent: To accomplish this goal, Chokalingam shaved Chokalingam head of Chokalingam naturally wavy black locks, trimmed Chokalingam "long Indian-American eyelashes," checked "black" under the optional race/ethnicity declaration and submitted Chokalingam application to 14 schools under Chokalingam childhood nickname "JoJo.
article_snippet.sent: Chokalingam had mediocre grades and MCATs, but Chokalingam graduated from one of the most prestigious schools in the nation.
article_snippet.sent: Yet even while representing Chokalingam as black, Chokalingam received only a single admission offer, to St. Louis University's School of Medicine, which falls somewhere between 57th and 67th in national rankings.
article_snippet.sent: Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and all the higher ranked schools Chokalingam applied to rejected Chokalingam.