suraj_sharma wrote:
Hi Paul,
I am an intl student and I have GMAT score. I am planning to apply to 5 out of top 10 B Schools in US.
I don't have a TOEFL Score, just wanted to know if TOEFL Score can be waived off ? I have stayed in US for over 3 years now and the medium of communication in my Grad School in India was English.
Please let me know, I know it normally depends on school to school.
But how about top 10 schools such as Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, MIT, Kellogg, Columbia, Penn etc.
Pls help
Suraj
Suraj,
It can usually be waived. Of the schools you listed, HBS, Stanford, and Columbia do not require a TOEFL score if the medium of instruction at your undergraduate school was English. Wharton hedges its requirement a bit by saying that English-medium applicants "are eligible to waive" the TOEFL, which sounds like you have to ask them for permission to waive it. MIT does not require a TOEFL score for anyone (they use the GMAT verbal score).
Of the schools you listed, Kellogg is easily the most stringent. The only international applicants who do not have to take the TOEFL are those whose "native language" is English AND who went to an undergraduate school in "Australia, Canada (not including Quebec), England, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa and Wales." How's that for particular?
Good luck!
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