Reply #8: YES!!! I could not think of the movie that this reminded me of..

[TheEuclideanOne]

but it was Soul Man. A really bad movie that this situation would make a great sequel to.




Soul Man
The movie's protagonist is Mark Watson (Howell), the single pampered son from a rich family who is about to attend Harvard Law School along with his best friend Gordon (Gross). However, all of a sudden his father's neurotic psychiatrist talks his patient into having more fun for himself instead of spending money on his son. Faced with the horrifying prospect of having to pay for law school by himself, Mark decides to take up a scholarship, but the only suitable one is for blacks only. So he decides to cheat: by using tanning pills in a larger dose than prescribed to appear as an African-American, he sets out for Harvard, naively believing that nowadays blacks have no problems at all in American society.


http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1213242880/tt0091991