The requisites for English Language testing are my only complaint about the MBA application process. The rules simply do not make sense to me. For most schools, an applicant is exempt from taking the TOEFL (or IELTS, or PTE) if and only if he/she has an undergraduate/graduate degree from a university that provided instruction entirely in English. Technically, someone with a British passport who is working in the UK but pursued her undergraduate studies in a non-English-speaking country, for whatever reason, must still take the TOEFL. Bizarre!   [Side note: how you should interpret this series of posts on the application process.]

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