English Language Requirements

presentface
Fri, 17 Apr 2015 04:33:57 +0000

As an international applicant, loads of admission pages ask for an IELTs or TOEFL score to be submitted, but then add confusing bits after, like, “unless your first language is English” or “if you aren’t confident in your English”. How do you even quantify that? I’m perfectly fluent in English, but my country isn’t a generally English speaking country, so I don’t know whether I have to prove something by document. Can’t I just prove I’m fluent by sending in a good SAT score? Do I even need to prove that I’m fluent?