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[quote=Anonymous]You have to be self-driven to succeed, because the structure that is at American universities and colleges doesn't really exist in German ones. Some classes are just lectures and in order to get anything out of them you have to motivate yourself to go to the lecture and to do the suggested readings. Because you don't get tested, write papers, or get grades for such classes, even if they're essential to your education, or for when you take your exams to get your degree.

Campus life does not exist in the way it does in the US. So, there are dormitories, but they are not run by the university you are enrolled at. So you might, for example, live in a dorm with students from the technical university as well as the liberal arts university, and it won't necessarily be "on campus" but maybe a few subway stops away.  Also there aren't the myriad activities like sports and arts groups sponsored by the universities as there are in the US.

If your child wants to take seminars where he has to write papers or give reports, his German really had better be excellent.

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