I got Into Medical School by saying I was black.
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After all that, I finally got accepted Into Medical school.
I interviewed at 11 schools while posing as a Black man.
I became a serious contender at some of America\'s greatest schools, including Harvard University, Washington University, University of Pennsylvania, Case Western Reserve University, George Washington University, University of Pittsburgh, Yale University, University of Rochester, University of Nebraska Omaha, and Columbia University.
What started as a scam to get Into med School turned Into a twisted social experiment, teaching me lessons I would never have learned in the classroom.
Women were either scared of me or found my bald Black dude look sexually mesmerizing.
Store clerks accused me of shoplifting.
Cops harassed me.
During a med School interview, an African American doctor angrily confronted me for not being black.
Not everything went as planned.
Vijay, the Indian American frat boy, became Jojo, the African American affirmative action applicant.
I joined the Organization of Black Students and used my middle name, Jojo.
Not even my own frat brothers recognized me.
I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied as an African American.
So I became one.
The only problem? I wasn\'t a minority.
Still, I was determined to be a doctor and discovered that affirmative action provided a loophole that might help.
Legitimately.
That is until I realized I didn\'t have the grades or test scores to get Into Medical school.
Once upon a time, I was an ethically challenged, hard-partying Indian American frat boy enjoying my third year of college.
Honestly, I am about as Black as my sister Mindy Kaling (The Office / The Mindy Project).
I lied.
I got Into Medical School by saying I was black
