When freshman Phoenix Dailey applied for the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) scholarship to go overseas to Germany this summer, he wasn’t expecting too much from it. Too busy navigating different extracurricular activities as a freshman, the scholarship went to the back of Dailey's...

A few weeks after taking the National German Exam, I went to class excited to learn what my score was. If I got a score within the 90th percentile, I would be able to go to Germany for an educational trip, all expenses covered. I was excited about this, as going to Europe had always been a dream of mine. During...