<p>My daughter is in the 7th grade and lives in Europe. This is her first year in a English speaking school, however we speak English at home. She reads and writes in English and has taken several CTY English online courses.</p>
<p>She took the SSAT at a 7th grader recently to see what the test was like. We got her scores back and the verbal scores were 99%. Math was 81%</p>
<p>Do you think the schools are going to require her to take the TOEFL exam as well since she has only started school in a English speaking classroom?</p>
<p>Obviously, she won't have any problems with this exam.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, Tofel is required for non-native English speaking applicants no matter how high SSAT is. You should always contact the school you applied for specific info.</p>
<p>I don’t know the answer to your question, but the university I went to required it from all students who grew up in a country that wasn’t exclusively English. My English speaking South African friend had to take it even though his entire schooling had been in English, and his first language growing up was English. Hopefully these days, the schools and universities are more reasonable. </p>
<p>However, it is also not too uncommon to have students who score very highly on the GRE verbal portion, but can neither speak nor understand it well. I don’t know if these trends are also present at BS, but I wouldn’t be surprised.</p>
<p>After reading your post, I will understand if they ask her to take the TOEFL. Until you made the point that some people can read, but can’t speak or be understood that well, I didn’t understand why she should take it. Your comment makes me understand. I will schedule it for her without even asking the schools.</p>
<p>It’s not something that either of us will worry about and the test will be a novelty for her.</p>
<p>GMT… thank you, but it doesn’t matter. If one school ask for it, she’ll need to take it. I might as well send the results to all the schools without asking them. It will save time and trouble on everyone’s part. </p>
<p>I could understand schools not knowing seeing that she’s had 6 years of French.</p>
<p>She’s a fluent speaker, it isn’t as if she will be nervous or scared to take this test. Frankly it will be more amusing than any thing else.</p>
<p>Schools require students to take Toefl if the school the child attends is not an English-speaking program. If the school profile lists it as English speaking, then they should not ask.</p>