He basically got handed a pitcher of lemonade and made lemons out of it. Someone who had the benefit of educated parents and a private school education and then only got a 3.1 GPA in college because they spent all their time at frat parties doesn't really deserve to get into med school.
Someone whose parents probably didn't attend college, who spent their formative years in a mediocre public school system, might have had to work while in school and couldn't afford MCAT prep classes, and got the grades and scores Chokal-Ingam did has achieved a lot more and demonstrated a lot more effort and ambition than he did, even though the end "output" was the same on paper.
I agree, but here's the problem. This dude completely disclosed the fact that he came from a wealthy background by saying he needed no financial aid and that both his parents were well-educated. It was just his race that was the differentiating factor here when he was discussing his application process.
Affirmative action for socioeconomic status makes the most sense and this BS wouldn't happen.
If we don't get rid of race-based affirmative action, then we simply cannot tolerate "self-defining" of race. It would have to be based on the race of the parents and systematically defined. We just can't have it both ways.
