List of TOEFL Requirements for top U.S. colleges

Student Lounge International Students
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<p>Williams = No need
Yale = No need b/c English schools for 4 years
Stanford = No need
Amherst = No need b/c 700+ SAT CR
Princeton = No need b/c English schools for 3 years
Harvard = No need
Dartmouth = No need b/c English school
Columbia = No need b/c 650+ SAT CR
Brown = No need b/c 600+ SAT CR
Cornell = No need b/c 670+ SAT CR
MIT = No need
Middlebury = No need b/c other test results considered</p>

<p>UPenn = encouraged even for English school</p>

<p>** These are all specified on the official websites of respective schools.</p>

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<p>Boston = encouraged for all non-native english speakers
Johns Hopkins = waived if CR is 670+
Michigan = required for all non-native english speakers
Rice = required for all non-native english speakers</p>

<p>I'll add more - i've got it all (like 11 schools) on paper somewhere in my bag - i'll post later</p>

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<p>Middlebury = No need b/c other test results considered
UMiami = Yes
UCONN = Yes
Trinity = Yes</p>

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<p>Stanford-recommended
Oberlin-no need if high school education was/is in English
Amherst-700+ CR, or high school education in English
Colgate-required if your first language isn't English</p>

<p>99% of colleges: Not required if you went to an English-language high school. I emailed 8 of my 11 colleges and they waived the TOEFL for me. The other 3 don't require it</p>

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<p>Conn Coll: waived if you email the office with your high CR scores</p>

<p>mmm, good for the smaller colleges that actually personalize their email replies...</p>

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<p>Kenyon: no need since only 1 among SAT, TOEFL and ACT required</p>

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<p>I was suprised when I found out that Harvard didn't require the TOEFL.</p>

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<p>Wesleyan: not needed if you get 650 or above in critical readin</p>

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<p>I'm not sure about other places, but in India theres a huge misconception that TOEFL is the prime requirement to study in america. Whenever i tell someone i'm applying to college in US they go "so you had to give the TOEFL n stuff?"
This myth NEEDS to be dispelled.</p>

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<p>Remember you still need to score pretty high on the SAT I CR to get TOEFL waived in most cases, and/or study in a school where English is the main language of instruction. I am sure there are a lot of applicants for whom neither is the case.</p>

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<p>Per individual request: link for Columbia:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/faq/admissions.php#6%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/faq/admissions.php#6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). You are urged to visit <a href="http://www.toefl.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.toefl.org&lt;/a> as quickly as possible for more information on this examination. A minimum score of 600 (paper-based test), 250 (old computer-based test) or 100 (new Internet-based test) is necessary for admission to Columbia. Your score must be reported directly to Columbia by the testing service, using report code 2116 ( Columbia College) or 2111 (The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science).
If you have a 650 on the Critical Reasoning/Verbal section of the SAT, you are exempt from taking an English proficiency examination.

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<p>anyone knows why does some grad school (ex: MIT) required toefl when an international student's already been studying undergrad here in the US at a highly ranked school and has GRE scores?</p>

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<p>^lol, is that true?</p>

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<p>Because you still make grammar mistakes even after undergrad studies... that'd be a start, I don't know.</p>