“Applying to medical school is no easy feat, and apparently Mindy Kaling’s older brother assumed the hurdles would be much easier if he were black.

Vijay Chokal-Ingam, who is the son of Indian immigrants, admitted on his website, AlmostBlack.com, that he self-identified as African-American on med school applications because he assumed doing so would increase his chances of being accepted. Chokal-Ingam said his test scores were not as favorable and so he pretended to be a black man because he said admission standards for African-American students were ‘less stringent.’” *

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss.

*Read more here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/06/mindy-kaling-brother-posing-black-man-medical-school_n_7011720.html