Unreasonable TOEFL requirement.

happymomof1
Fri, 26 Feb 2016 21:10:17 +0000

All you can do is to contact the admissions office at FIT, and ask whether or not you do need to provide a score from an Engish proficiency exam, given that you completed you exited ESL at the end of 9th grade and have been in on-level English classes since then. Ask if they can accept any other evidence of your proficiency (ACT/SAT verbal scores, copy of your ESL exit exam results, Michigan or other proficiency exam that the ESL staff at your HS could administer, etc.) or if the exam must be TOEFL or IELTS.

If FIT wants to be certain that you have strong listening and speaking skills as well as reading and writing skills, it may be necessary for you to take the TOEFL. Do remember that if you don’t get in this year because of the TOEFL score, you can take a gap year while you prepare for and take that exam, then apply for fall 2017.