<p>"Is English you first language? Is English the primary language spoken at home?</p>
<p>If you checked no to either of the questions above, you are required to take and submit the results of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). In lieu of TOEFL, students may submit results of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). Please click here for further information on these tests."</p>
<p>Problem?! English is not my first lanuage nor the primary language spoken at home because I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to US eight years ago. I am a US citizen, in advanced English class, etc.</p>
<p>Do I need to take the TOEFL? I don’t think I am even qualify to take the TOEFL since I have been here since the fourth grade. Frankly, my writing skills are better than some natural born at my school.</p>
<p>Please help!</p>
<p>I don't know about Boston U in particular, but most college catalogues I've seen say that you only have to do that if you score under x-amount of the verbal section of the SAT, so I think you're fine</p>
<p>thanks. i actually sent an e-mail last night and they said that if long as I get a 600+ on the verbal section on the SAT i don't have to take it.</p>
<p>fewer the tests, the better.</p>
<p>I was wondering about that question too. My parents were born in China, but I was born in NYC. I speak chinese at home to my parents... but English everywhere else. I don't know how to write/read or speak ALOT of chinese though. Do I still need to take the TOEFL?</p>
<p>it kills me to admit that i can't write chinese anymore. it makes me so sad that i know more about US history that Chinese history. but i digress...</p>
<p>i e-mailed the adcome at BU. 600+ on verbal section for SAT = no TOEFL.</p>
<p>What in the world?!?!?!...<em>crosses BU off my list</em></p>
<p>My SATs suck as of right now... 750M, 360W, 510W. This is only a practice test though.</p>