Honestly, I thought it was hilarious because 1) Black people don’t look anything like that (I’ve had numerous black friends over the years), 2) I am mixed race (majority Indian part black), and 3) I can’t believe that the admission people realized he wasn’t black.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/06/mindy-kalings-brother-claims-he-got-into-medical-school-by-posing-as-black/?utm_term=.adfb18d172db
Seems like he fooled other people as well, though the result was not always in his favor, as actual black people probably know…
Max Ehrenfreund in Washington Post:
By his own account, his make-over taught him what life in the United States is like as a black person. With his clipped eyebrows and shaved head, clerks and strangers mistook him for black and treated him badly.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/07/living/feat-mindy-kaling-brother-affirmative-action/index.html
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.”