Vijay Chokalingam is releasing a book detailing his experience.
almostblack.com
On a website promoting his book, Chokalingam writes that he realized when he was a junior at the University of Chicago he didn't have the grades or the MCAT score to get into medical school.
According to Chokalingam, he had a GPA of 3.1 and a score of 31 on the MCAT, which ranks in the 80-85 percentile for the test.
"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?" he writes.
So, he said he altered his appearance to look more like an African American, and even joined the Organization of Black Students.
"My change in appearance was so startling that my own fraternity brothers didn't recognize me at first," he said.
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