<p>sybbie719,</p>
<p>Over th course of my time here at CC, I have seen post from US-born and entirely US-educated students who have been required to present TOEFL or other English proficiency exam scores because the place they were applying to caught wind of the fact that they had a different home language. My friend’s daughter who was adopted from another country before she had begun to speak, was also required to take her college’s English proficiency exam. Knowing this kind of stuff in advance, I was able to be sure that my own bi-lingual Happykid ticked the Native-English box on her college app.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there is no easy way to predict which institutions will require proficiency exams.</p>