TOEFL For students whose native language is not English who have not obtained an undergraduate or graduate degree from an academic institution whose language of instruction is English, the results of either the TOEFL or IELTS exam.For the TOEFL, official scores must be less than two years old. On the internet based test an applicant must score 100 or higher, and we would like a score 26 or higher on the speaking portion. IELTS For the IELTS, an applicant must score 7.0 or higher. GRE No application will be rejected because of the absence of GRE scores, but this component of your application does carry significant weight in the decisions of the graduate admissions committee, so it is in your advantage to have taken both the general and Mathematics parts of the GRE, and had the official results submitted to us by the end of January.

PS Your personal statement. This will be carefully considered the program admission committee to rank your application. Be as specific as possible about your research interests and qualifications. If you have particular reasons for choosing Northwestern, be sure to indicate them. Fee To apply for admission, you must submit an application fee by credit card only. The application fee is $95 and is not refundable. RL Two (or more) letters of recommendation from professors familiar with your advanced work. It is your responsibility to make sure that we receive these letters in time. These should be submitted by the letter writer through the online application system. Transcript A scanned copy of your transcript for each colleges and/or universities attended should be uploaded to your application. It is helpful to include a list of junior-, senior-, and graduate-level mathematics courses taken or to be completed before entering graduate school at Northwestern. For international students, this roughly corresponds to courses in the last two years of undergraduate study.