UCLA Supplemental Duolingo English Test

victoriaaaaa53
Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:15:23 +0000

To those who received the Duolingo email from UCLA, where are you all from and where do you study?

This post from the blog Ask Ms Sun might explain a bit:
“A portion of international applicants (primarily those from China and some from other Asian countries) have received a request from UCLA for an English assessment, in addition to the submitted TOEFL score. This is not a joke or a mistake (as some seems to have come to believe). This is an independent assessment most likely targeting Asian students due to the pervasive cheating from the region.”

I am a Hong Kong citizen and my high school is in Shanghai, China. I received a 118 in TOEFL and am predicted a 7 in IB English A HL, so I was honestly very confused when I got the email from UCLA.

Alternatively, my college counsellor says this might also be a tactic from UCLA to see how interested a student really is to attend UCLA.

Hope this helps.

(UCLA isn’t my top choice university and I didn’t take the test.)