Information for Non-Native Speakers of English

All students, including students whose primary language is not English, are strongly encouraged to take the online FEE over the summer.

When students register for the online FEE, they will be asked if English is their first language, and if not, whether they speak and write English as fluently as they speak and write their first language.

After the online FEE is scored, staff in the Program in English Language Studies (ELS) will review the essays of students who receive scores of "Writing Subject Required." ELS staff will determine whether a student must take a regular expository writing class (CI-HW), or a writing class specifically designed for bilingual students (21F.222). 

Students whose primary language is not English, who do not take the online FEE over the summer, must take the English Diagnostic Review (EDR) during Orientation, instead of the make-up FEE.  The EDR is offered at the same time as the make-up FEE.