The fact they don’t speak English well enough doesn’t mean they’re not qualified. They may be excellent in their respective majors. But China doesn’t teach 'real English ', but they ‘teach to the test’, drilling and drilling the format and expected answers. Medium-selectivity universities could dispense with the TOEFL and simply give an English test (or even administer an internal TOEFL) during international orientation, the results of which would place students directly into classes, offer part English support part regular classes, or full esl for a semester or a year.
It’s also bypass issues with TOEFL scrutiny.
Finally, the super smart poor shouldn’t be excluded, because those are the ones we stand to most benefit from.
Asu would stand to benefit from the " no TOEFL " policy, too.
Note that most UK universities are fine admitting without an English language test, and if English is shown to be insufficient, student have to do an international foundation year that includes English, intro classes in the subject in English, and methodology.