ENGLISH FACILITY REQUIREMENTS
All applicants must be proficient in both written and spoken English. Applicants whose first language (i.e. the language learned at home as a child) is not English and who have completed less than four years of full-time academic study in an English language school system located in a country where the first language is English, are required to achieve an appropriate standard in a recognized test of English facility. NOTE: We will not exempt from English facility testing any applicant who studied in English in a country where the first language is not English.

However, we will exempt from English facility testing any applicant who successfully completes, with grades of "C" or higher, at least four full degree courses, including at least one full course in English, Social Sciences or Humanities taught in English, in a recognized English-medium university located in a country where English is the first language. We will also exempt from English facility testing any applicant who is a bilingual francophone and who has satisfactorily completed at least four years of full-time academic study in the Canadian
school system.

Acceptable proof of English facility must be submitted by the application deadline. Tests taken more than more than two years prior to the application deadline will not be
considered. Official test score reports must be sent by the testing agency directly to the Admissions Office, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto. If this is not possible, we will accept a notarized copy of a valid score report submitted with the application. The following tests are recognized:

Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB) The minimum requirement is an overall score of 85, with no part below 80. If an applicant scores at least 80 overall with no part below 80, and is otherwise well qualified for admission, we will automatically consider other academic evidence of English proficiency (for example, results in English courses) and we will advise the applicant whether or not our English facility requirements have been satisfied. It is not necessary to request this special consideration. Letters of reference will not be used for this purpose. MELAB Bulletins may be picked up at Admissions and Awards, University of Toronto, 315 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON M5S 1A3, Telephone: (416) 978-2190, or you may contact MELAB Testing, 3020 North University Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
48109-1057 USA.
Telephone: (734) 764-2416 / 763-3452; Fax: (734) 763-0369;
Email: melabelium@umich.edu;
Web sites: www.lsa/umich.edu/eli/melab.htm or the University of
Toronto MELAB site at www.library.utoronto.ca/melab.
A MELAB Test Centre has been established at the University of Toronto. Registration for the Toronto MELAB test must be done through the Toronto Centre, Room 2016/2019, New
College, University of Toronto, 40 Willcocks Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2Z3.Telephone: (416) 946-3942.

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