To be perfectly clear, I am not in favor of lowering admissions thresholds simply to create more minority doctors — that doesn’t do the school, patients, or the medical community any service; however, I am supportive of opening doors for people who show great potential relative to the resources available to them. Providing that assistance will have positive generational effects as these students become mentors, role models, and parents in their communities. The end goal of affirmative action, as I understand it, is to make affirmative action unnecessary, and I think we will approach that time in the coming two decades.

You lied about your racial identity on the AMCAS application, and your book hinges on the idea that this single piece of information was enough to get you interviews at top medical schools, and admission at one. Had you written “Indian,” would you have been ignored? Perhaps, but you don’t know for sure. I can’t find any evidence that you applied a second time under your actual racial identity to determine if there were any differences in the number of interviews given.

For a science major, your process was decidedly unscientific.

Why is there a paucity of data on your website? How many medical schools were you interviewed at as a black student? And presuming you re-applied as an Indian, how many admitted you? Was it just one? Why did that school admit you? Was it race or GPA, or both, or some combination of other factors? How much of each factored into the admissions decision? Was race even considered? Is that even knowable by anyone other than the admissions board? Moreover, did your interviewers wonder how the hell you were a black guy with the name Vijay “Jojo” Chokal-Ingam? On your site’s FAQ, you admit that at least one school’s admissions officer confronted you about your ploy. Finally, how does it feel to know that you are barely admissible even as “Jojo,” the black student with the oh so powerful gale of affirmative action in your sails?

You went in knowing that race might be a factor in admissions and that your own race may work against you, but that didn’t inspire you to hit the books harder. The truth is that you weren’t a very good student and you sought to wriggle through a perceived loophole. Had you been a 3.8 GPA student with a 37 MCAT who didn’t get admitted as an Indian, you might have a stronger case. Those people exist, and it’s a terrible shame. Perhaps you should be attacking the guild system perpetuated by established doctors. Despite a growing need for doctors, schools are making it harder and harder to become one. But no, that wouldn’t strongly position you for your new career goal.

The positioning of your book and a quick scan of your tweets, mentioning Clarence Thomas, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, and Carly Fiorina, suggests that you are not a stalwart champion of morality and virtue, but instead, an unprincipled opportunist who churned out a book as a sort of admissions essay for enrollment into that cadre of intellectually dishonest and disingenuous right wing pundits, politicians, and their ilk. You’re looking to sidle up to right wing media outlets, Bobby Jindal, Ben Carson, Dinesh D’Souza et al. and you’re just the type of guy they love — a person of color who’s smart enough to know better, but happily takes on the role of turncoat snake oil salesman and pot stirrer if it means a little airtime and a few greenbacks in his bank account. When the chips are down, one will go for broke, I suppose.

If all goes as you intend, you’ll find yourself on the Fox & Friends shortlist, and we’ll be watching Trevor Noah skillfully dismantle your half-baked ideas on The Daily Show for years to come. If it doesn’t, you’ll simply be remembered as a failed fraud whose only claim to fame is a sister who is infinitely more successful. Good luck, Vijay.