well, most of the colleges in here(lebanon), teach in english, and since most school teach frensh as the main language, when someone applies to a college, he's requested to take english courses, but if he comes from an english speaking school, he most likely have taken the SAT and toefl exam, so he doesn't have to take those courses, and he can save some money, in some cases someone might pay 4000$ to learn english over several years.
but i'm pretty good at english, at least that what i believe, then i'll take the toefl exam, and save myself some money, and it's really not that difficult