Mindy Kaling's Brother Pretended to Be Black to Get Into Med School

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do they have different last names?

Kaling is a shortened version of her real last name.

[Anonymous]

I have an acquaintance who did Something very similar to get into a top undergrad program (pre med). She is american born to Pakistani parents (both mom and dad). However, her father, although 100% pakistani ethnicity and citizenship (before becoming american)was born in egypt. She claimed African on her applications. She ended up excelling and entering a well regarded although not top 10 medical school.

[Anonymous]

What would happen of you check mixed or black on applications? Ala Elizabeth Warren how would they prove you wrong?

[Anonymous]

I wish you guys who think this is a good idea could identify yourselves to the police as black and definitely identify yourselves to businesses, doctors, hospitals, taxi drivers as black. You know, to complete the experience of the privilege that black people have been enjoying for so long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think anyone applying to college should be given a number. Just an SAT score, classes taken, GPA and extra activities. Nothing else. No name, no state, no HS name. Nothing.

Let's see what happens.

Agree. Let their abilities speak for them, not race. Affirmative action is very flawed but if we didn't have it then there would probably be a lot less women in the workforce.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think anyone applying to college should be given a number. Just an SAT score, classes taken, GPA and extra activities. Nothing else. No name, no state, no HS name. Nothing.

Let's see what happens.

Agree. Let their abilities speak for them, not race. Affirmative action is very flawed but if we didn't have it then there would probably be a lot less women in the workforce.

You mean a lot less white women. White women owe a lot to affirmative action, though they'd like to forget that.

Also, be careful what you wish for. Once upon a time, numbers were all that mattered. The result was that Jews and Asians completely dominated, while "regular" white people fell behind. "Holistic" admissions was invented to reduce the numbers of Jews and Asians, and that is exactly the effect it had. You see something similar happening now with Africans completely dominating African Americans in admissions because Africans have better test scores than even whites. African Americans are starting to complain the way that whites once did, and some African American professors want new "holistic" factors used in choosing which blacks to admit.

[Anonymous]

^^^citation please

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It worked. Wish my kids could be black for college.

AA here. Not funny, PP. You'd rather die than be black, then when it benefits you, you'd wish for it? I'd like to hear you wishing to be black 100 years ago.

And if you think that the possibility of a scholarship makes being black better, you're sadly mistaken. And furthermore, transforming to black probably would be the only way you'd get accepted to college.

[Anonymous]

He is hilarious!!!

[Anonymous]

Just proves that you don't need white privilege to excel. Therefore, you cannot blame white privilege if you don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It worked. Wish my kids could be black for college.

Well he said he was treated like shit when people thought he was Black. Is that your wish for your kids? Nice mom.

[Anonymous]

So he never applied to the same schools as an Indian-American? I don't get how he thinks this leads to any conclusions or what his point is. He'd better go back into the shadow of his sister.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think anyone applying to college should be given a number. Just an SAT score, classes taken, GPA and extra activities. Nothing else. No name, no state, no HS name. Nothing.

Let's see what happens.

This. Really. I don't care what race or religion my doctor is. I just want him/her to know what he's doing.

[Anonymous]

If it's true that there is a higher bar for Asian and Whites to get into med school (meaning they need a higher GPA, higher MCAT scores), then this just makes me more likely to seek out a white or Asian doctor. If the deck is stacked against them in college an med school admissions, but they get in anyway, they must be really smart!

[Anonymous]

The system is broken