Marven Louie Badon Ragay (in toga) with his father, Benecio. PHOTO FROM FACEBOOK

Marven Louie Badon Ragay couldnt help but wax poetic on his Facebook wall on March 23. He thanked his father Benecio, a tricycle driver, for his perseverance in sending him to medical school despite their financial difficulties.

Your earnings were able to sustain my education. Congrats! A tricycle driver with a son who is a medical doctor. You must be proud of me, father!, he wrote.

He also posted a photo of him in his toga and his father standing beside his tricycle No. 0053, a day after he graduated from Silliman University Medical School.

Marven admitted that the graduation felt surreal, especially when he thought about how his parents beat the odds through loans and promissory notes. His parents had yet to pay fully for the tablet that they loaned for (to lessen his expenses for medical books).

I am happy for them because their efforts and hard work have paid off, he said.

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Benecio was a farmer who dropped out of college and became a tricycle driver. His wife, Flor Marie Badon-Ragay, works at the provincial agriculturists office in Negros Oriental.

Money was hard to come by, but the couple was able to send to school all their four childrenVenice Marie, Marven, Danya Ritzel and Kathleen Josela.

They are all registered nurses, choosing the profession not because they want to work abroad. They could save money using the same hand-me-down books.

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(CNN) -- Actress Mindy Kaling's brother says that he posed as a black man years ago to get into medical school and that the experience opened his eyes to what he calls the hypocrisy of affirmative action.

The revelation comes as Vijay Chokal-Ingam, who is of Indian descent, is pitching a book about his experiences as a "hard-partying college frat boy who discovered the seriousness and complexity of America's racial problems while posing as a black man."

On his website, AlmostBlack.com, Chokal-Ingam says he hatched the plan in 1998 after realizing in college that his grades weren't going to be good enough to get into med school as an Indian-American.

"So, I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man," he wrote on the website. "My change in appearance was so startling that my own fraternity brothers didn't recognize me at first."

He says he joined an organization for black students and applied to schools using his middle name, JoJo.

The plan had some drawbacks, said Chokal-Ingam, who describes himself now as a "professional resume writer, interview coach, and graduate school application consultant."

"Cops harassed me. Store clerks accused me of shoplifting. Women were either scared of me or couldn't keep their hands off me," he wrote. "What started as a devious ploy to gain admission to medical school turned into a twisted social experiment."

He says it worked. Despite a relatively mediocre 3.1 college grade-point average and a good-but-not-great score of 31 on the Medical College Admission Test, Chokal-Ingam claims he was wooed by several top medical schools.

He even posts documents on his website to bolster his claims, including an enthusiastic letter from a dean at the Emory University School of Medicine congratulating him on his "excellent scores" on the MCAT.

But there's little evidence to suggest his posturing as a "black" applicant helped him get into these schools. First, there is no point of comparison: Chokal-Ingam never applied to medical schools as an Indian-American.

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Comedian Mindy Kaling'solder brother,Vijay Chokal-Ingam, has revealed he was accepted into medical school by faking his race and taking advantage of affirmative action policies.

"I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man," he writes on his blog, almostblack.com. "Vijay the Indian-American frat boy become Jojo the African American Affirmative Action applicant to medical school."

Covering up his roots, Chokal-Ingam self-identified as black on his college applications and, despite having a less than impressive 3.1 GPA, was soon invited to interview at Harvard, Columbia and many more prestigious schools. He ended up enrolling inSt. Louis University Medical School, but dropped out after two years and"eventually was accepted at, and graduated from, UCLA Andersons MBA program as an Asian Indian-American", reports the NY Post.

I disclosed that I didnt receive financial aid from the University of Chicago, and that I had a nice car, he said. I was the campus rich kid... and yet they considered me an affirmative-action applicant.

Why did he do it and why is he so passionate about sharing his story? To prove that affirmative action programs don't work and that, if anything, they're actually propagating racism.

"#affirmativeactionis DISCRIMINATION; it's a lie to call it else. I got into medical school with a 3.1 GPA as black,"Chokal-Ingam tweeted before following thatup with a number of more messages on the matter, including:

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Story highlights Vijay Chokal-Ingam says he pretended to be black to get into medical school He says the experience showed him that affirmative action is a flawed system

The revelation comes as Vijay Chokal-Ingam, who is of Indian descent, is pitching a book about his experiences as a "hard-partying college frat boy who discovered the seriousness and complexity of America's racial problems while posing as a black man."

On his website, AlmostBlack.com, Chokal-Ingam says he hatched the plan in 1998 after realizing in college that his grades weren't going to be good enough to get into med school as an Indian-American.

"So, I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man," he wrote on the website. "My change in appearance was so startling that my own fraternity brothers didn't recognize me at first."

Actress Mindy Kaling's brother says his sister isn't happy with his plans for a book about affirmative action.

He says he joined an organization for black students and applied to schools using his middle name, JoJo.

The plan had some drawbacks, said Chokal-Ingam, who describes himself now as a "professional resume writer, interview coach, and graduate school application consultant."

"Cops harassed me. Store clerks accused me of shoplifting. Women were either scared of me or couldn't keep their hands off me," he wrote. "What started as a devious ploy to gain admission to medical school turned into a twisted social experiment."

But, he says, it worked. Despite a relatively mediocre 3.1 college grade-point average and a score of 31 on the Medical College Admission Test, he says, he was wooed by a number of top medical schools.

He eventually attended Saint Louis University Medical School, dropping out after two years.

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UPDATE: Mindy Kaling's rep tells Us Weekly: "Mindy has been estranged from her brother for years. She was not aware of his decision to apply to medical school under a different name and race."

Umm, what? While Mindy Kaling was writing and starring in The Mindy Project, her older brother Vijay Chokal-Ingam, was working on a project of his own: getting into medical school.

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To promote his upcoming book, Almost Black: The True Story of an Indian American Who Got Into Medical School Posing as an African American, Chokal-Ingam, 38, posted details of how he supposedly got into medical school by changing his race on his website.

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In my junior year of college, I realized that I didnt have the grades or test scores to get into medical school, at least not as an Indian-American, he wrote. Still, I was determined to become a doctor and I knew that admission standards for certain minorities under affirmative action were, lets say less stringent?

Mindy Kaling reportedly did not approve of her brother's decision to tell his story. Credit: David Livingston/Getty Images

Chokal-Ingam went on to shave his head, trim his eyelashes, and join the Organization of Black Students, using his middle name Jojo. With these new credentials, and the same 3.1 GPA and 31 MCAT score, Chokal-Ingam allegedly was admitted as an African-American student.

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I became a serious contender at some of the greatest medical schools in America, including Harvard, Wash U, UPenn, Case Western, and Columbia, he continued. In all, I interviewed at eleven prestigious medical schools in 9 major cities across America, while posing as a black man.

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Story highlights Vijay Chokal-Ingam says he pretended to be black to get into medical school He says the experience showed him that affirmative action is a flawed system

The revelation comes as Vijay Chokal-Ingam, who is of Indian descent, is pitching a book about his experiences as a "hard-partying college frat boy who discovered the seriousness and complexity of America's racial problems while posing as a black man."

On his website, AlmostBlack.com, Chokal-Ingam says he hatched the plan in 1998 after realizing in college that his grades weren't going to be good enough to get into med school as an Indian-American.

"So, I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man," he wrote on the website. "My change in appearance was so startling that my own fraternity brothers didn't recognize me at first."

Actress Mindy Kaling's brother says his sister isn't happy with his plans for a book about affirmative action.

He says he joined an organization for black students and applied to schools using his middle name, JoJo.

The plan had some drawbacks, said Chokal-Ingam, who describes himself now as a "professional resume writer, interview coach, and graduate school application consultant."

"Cops harassed me. Store clerks accused me of shoplifting. Women were either scared of me or couldn't keep their hands off me," he wrote. "What started as a devious ploy to gain admission to medical school turned into a twisted social experiment."

But, he says, it worked. Despite a relatively mediocre 3.1 college grade-point average and a score of 31 on the Medical College Admission Test, he says, he was wooed by a number of top medical schools.

He eventually attended Saint Louis University Medical School, dropping out after two years.

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Vijay Chokal-Ingam, who is sparking controversy with a proposed but not yet finished book "Almost Black The True Story Of An Indian American Who Got Into Medical School Pretending To Be An African American," which he says is intended at least in part to balance the moral ledger.

Im a Hindu, and we have something called karma says Mr. Chokal-Ingam, in an interview. I think Im doing the right thing now. Im telling the truth about a system of organized racism that I dont think helps anyone. Im trying to prevent people from being discriminated against or having negative stereotypes created that hurt their careers indirectly through the cycle of discrimination.

Chokal-Ingam, who subsequentlydropped out of medical school and is now a graduate school admissions consultant,declined to speak about his family or his famous sister, thecreator and star of the FOX comedy, 'The Mindy Project'and their reaction to his work.

He describes how his decision to falsify his applications came about. After watching some of my best friends who were Indian-American like me get rejected from medical school I said, you know, I dont want to take the same path.

An applicant with my test scores who was Indian or Asian-American was unlikely to get into med school, while an African-American with the same scores was statistically likely to get into medical school. So it was a pretty easy choice at that point, he says.

Chokal-Ingam says that it was at that point, I chose to shave my head, trim my Indian eyelashes and join the organization of Black Students and apply to medical school as an African-American.

Chokal-Ingam says he applied to a number of US medical schools, including Harvard, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania in 1998, adding, I never lied about anything on my application, except my race."

Asked if he truly wanted to become a physician or if this was a social experiment, he says, At the time there was nothing I wanted more in the world. My mother was a doctor. Id worked in a hospital. There was nothing I wanted more and I was willing to do anything within reason to achieve that goal.

But he never completed his medical training, a fact that he attributes to karma.

I have to be willing to accept the fact that perhaps I was never destined to become a doctor because of the way I got in, he says. I showed that I didnt have the clinical skills required to be a doctor. So unfortunately, I dropped out.

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Mindy Kalings brother may have taken a slightly unorthodox route to get into medical school.

Vijay Chokal-Ingam, the older brother of the Mindy Project star recently made headlines after claiming he self-identified as black on medical school applications back in 1998 and 1999.

Chokal-Ingam claims that when he initially applied to medical schools he found himself wait-listed at University of Pennsylvania, Washington University and Mt. Sinai. This apparently prompted him to try to apply to schools while claiming to be black.

Would you rather accept racism or defy those who want to discriminate against you? I chose the latter and applied to medical school as black, Chokal-Ingam posted on his website Almost Black, where he writes about his anti-affirmative action stance and chronicles his experience of getting into medical school.

I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man. My change in appearance was so startling that my own fraternity brothers didnt recognize me at first. I even joined the Organization of Black Students, Chokal-Ingam who is Indian-American revealed.

(According to source, Kaling and her brother are estranged and she has no knowledge of his application claims.)

On March 31, the 38-year-old proceeded to post screenshot proof to his Almost Black Facebook page of application paperwork, invitations to interviews and acceptance letters from medical programs including Columbia University, Cornell University, George Washington University, Vanderbilt University and more.

Much of the extensive documentation is addressed from university minority affairs departments. The papers also show that the UCLA graduate applied under the name JoJo.

Let me clear about one thing. I never lied about anything on my application, except my race. Everything else on my application can be verified as correct. I didnt even claim that I was disadvantaged, the self-proclaimed affirmative action hacktivist wrote on Facebook.

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Nova Southeastern University plans to create a new medical school, offering traditional medical degrees at its North Miami Beach campus.

NSU's new College of Allopathic Medicine, or M.D. program, will complement its existing doctor of osteopathic medicine program, which is often described as a more holistic approach to patient care, officials said. The new medical school is designed to help meet a pending physician shortage in the state.

It would be South Florida's fourth traditional medical school, joining the University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University's medical school, which opened in 2011, and Florida International University's school, which opened in 2009.

Two state health groups recently released a report identifying a physician shortage of about 7,000 by 2025, particularly in psychiatry and several surgical fields.

NSU says it will be the only university in the Southeast and the first in Florida to house both an osteopathic medical school and an allopathic medical school. NSU President George Hanbury said the program will be modeled after Michigan State University, which already offers both degrees.

"Competition is a good thing, so the development of another high quality institution for medical education would potentially benefit the area," said Linda Quick, president of the South Florida Hospital & Healthcare Association.

Quick said the area is most in need of new physician residencies, rather than full medical schools, since studies show doctors are most likely to stay in the communities where they perform their residency. But she said new residency spots usually come with new medical schools.

The three existing traditional medical schools, as well as NSU's osteopathic program, all get thousands of applicants for hundreds of spots.

The new NSU program, slated to accept its first 50 students in 2017, plans to serve about 125 students within its first four years. It will be housed at the old Southeastern University of the Health Sciences at 1750 NE 167th St, North Miami Beach, not the main campus in Davie.

Nova bought the university in 1994 and moved the osteopathic programs to Davie. The campus has remained open, but underused, housing the College of Education and several health clinics, officials said.

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