<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I recently took the TOEFL and have yet to receive my scores. I find it a little bit ridiculous that sending score reports costs $17 per recipient. So, do I absolutely have to send these score reports? I scored a 670 on the CR of the SAT if that helps, and many schools say they'd wave it from a certain point on. A couple I'm not sure about though. Should I wait until they ask me to send scores?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I would be more proactive: e-mail the admission offices of the colleges you are interested in and see what they say.</p>
<p>I would suggest calling, as there's not much time to application deadlines.</p>
<p>My friend is in the same boat as you. I advised her to try as hard as possible to wiggle out of TOEFL as she did HS in an English environment and had a SAT CR score around yours.</p>
<p>TOEFL has a near monopoly on the English proficiency testing market in the USA. They can charge whatever they please. If you don't want to pay them all of this money you have to find colleges/universities that will:
a) accept an ACT or SAT exam score in place of the TOEFL score,
or
b) accept IELTS or other standardized exams,
or
c) don't require evidence of English proficiency for admission because they test you on arrival and will assign you to their own ESL programs if necessary.</p>
<p>These places do exist. You can start by carefully reading the websites of the colleges/universities you are interested in, and by contacting their international admissions offices to find out their policies on determining English proficiency.</p>