请问，为什么一个Indian American 改成Africa American, 医学院从全据就变成了全录

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416473/smash-bamboo-ceiling-racial-quotas-john-fund



One Indian American says he overcame anti-Asian bias and got into med school by claiming he was black. A group of Asian-American students has filed suit against Harvard’s admissions policy, charging that it seeks to limit the number of Asian students much like quotas held down the number of Jewish students until the 1920s. For example, one of the students Harvard rejected, an unnamed child of Chinese immigrants, had perfect scores on three college-admission tests, graduated first in his (or her) class, led the tennis team, and raised money for National Public Radio. Harvard officials respond that one in six of its students have an Asian background, its admissions policy was singled out for praise in a 1978 Supreme Court decision, and it rejects thousands of impressive overachievers every year. But the group bringing the lawsuit, Students for Fair Admissions, won a powerful PR ally this week:

Vijay Chokal-Ingam, an Indian American who happens to be the brother of Fox comedy star Mindy Kaling, revealed that he won acceptance to medical school by claiming to be black. Frustrated at being rejected by medical schools in part because of mediocre test scores and a 3.1 grade point average, Chokal-Ingam shaved off his slick black hair in 2001, began using his middle name, “Jojo,” and checked the “black” box on his applications. He soon won interviews at Harvard and Columbia and a spot on waiting lists at the University of Pennsylvania, Washington University, and Mt. Sinai. He eventually went to Saint Louis University Medical School but dropped out after two years. He then applied as an Asian American to UCLA’s business school and graduated with an MBA. He now works in Los Angeles as a résumé coach.

“I got into medical school because I said I was black,” Chokal-Ingam writes at his blog Almost Black. “The funny thing is I’m not. . . . My plan actually worked. Lucky for you, I never became a doctor.” Chokal-Ingam admits it was wrong for him to lie but says he did so in part because he was angry at the system of quotas that discriminated against Asian-American students. “Affirmative-action racism is as ingrained in our society as imperialism was in the time of Gandhi and segregation was in the time of (Martin Luther) King,” he wrote on his blog. “People who challenge affirmative action racism such as Abigail Fisher, Justice Thomas, and Ward Connerly are the true heirs” to the ideal of a color-blind society. He isn’t opposed to giving people from disadvantaged backgrounds a leg up when it comes to college admissions, but he argues that it was wrong for someone of his financially privileged background to get into medical school with mediocre grades. “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 told the New York Post. “I was the campus rich kid, let’s just put it on the table. And yet they considered me an affirmative-action applicant.” He says affirmative action actually works against the interests of its beneficiaries, because it “promotes negative stereotypes about the competency of minority Americans by making it seem like they need special treatment.”

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418530/what-ivy-league-affirmative-action-really-looks-inside-david-french

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• because africa american will trust what africa american says. no -janeice65- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/20/2015 postreply 22:15:08

• you are saying US is not going to the direction of melting pot -skitahoe- ♀ (163 bytes) () 05/20/2015 postreply 22:35:03