<p>My daughter is doing almost exactly what you described for taking German and going to Germany via MISTI.</p>
<p>She took German I and Globalization first term freshman year and German II second term freshman year.</p>
<p>She started German III in the fall of her sophomore year, but she is not really very good at languages and the homework was all consuming, so she dropped it. BUT she had enough German to apply to the MISTI Germany program.</p>
<p>So she will be going to Aachen, Germany this summer to do research on biofuels. She is in course 10-b and has had a UROP since IAP of her freshman year. </p>
<p>The MISTI Germany person pretty much made everything happen and she was contacted by several people in Aachen to do research.</p>
<p>MISTI Germany is paying for her flight as well as giving her a stipend of 650 Euros a month. Her room will cost 200 Euros a month which leaves her with 450 Euros a month for food, travel and other expenses. Since she cooks for herself, she knows that she spends very little money on food. Students in Germany can get rail/bus passes for very little money that lets them travel anywhere around their state. She is not officially part of the Aachen RWTH UROP International program, but will be able to take advantage of the two week intensive German classes offered in early June and the two, two hour classes offered per week over the summer. She will also be living in a dorm with other international students.</p>
<p>So two semesters of German was enough for her to apply to the program. Her research will be done in English. Other programs require more German.</p>
<p>She had originally thought that she would go through to German IV and have German as a HASS Concentration, but now she thinks that she will concentrate in Economics instead. But she will be able to go to Germany this summer!</p>