Required Testing
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Yale requires the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) SAT Reasoning Test (SAT I) (Code No. 3987) or the ACT Assessment Plus Writing (Code No. 0618). Scores from the January sat test date or the February act test date should reach us in time for consideration. Only scores reported directly to Yale by the College Board or the ACT are considered official. (Copies sent directly from the secondary school are also considered official.) If you have not already requested that your scores be forwarded, please do so immediately. International students are required to submit SAT I or ACT results unless they are studying outside the U.S. in a country without accessible testing centers (e.g. China and Iran). However, if you are currently residing or attending school in a country where the ACT with Writing or the SAT Reasoning Test is offered, you are required to take either test and submit official test results to Yale. We understand that the ACT Assessment Plus Writing is not offered everywhere outside of the United States, and so we will continue to accept the standard ACT without the writing option. |
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TOEFL/IELTS
Students at Yale must be able to understand rapid, idiomatic English and to express themselves easily in both spoken and written English. As part of the assessment of a candidate's competence in English, Yale strongly recommends the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) for any applicant whose first language is not English and who has not received at least two years of his or her secondary or university education in an English-medium curriculum. A minimum score of 600 is required on the paper-based TOEFL, and a minimum score of 100 is required on the Web-based TOEFL. For information about how to take the TOEFL, visit www.ets.org/toefl. Be sure to include Yale’s CEEB code (No. 3987) on all test registrations. You may submit the IELTS (International English Language Testing System) test in lieu of the TOEFL. A minimum score of 7 is required. For information about how to take the IELTS test, visit www.ielts.org.
*IELTS is jointly owned by the British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia, and the University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations.
