I guess your teacher got a Fullbright. (Congratulations to her 
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Do ask her, or the IUP German dept, over the past 20 years, how many German students have received a Fullbright? (Ask the same at everg college BTW).
This is what worries me most for you. I know IUP&a couple PASSHE schools and it’s ideal for serious kids in the “2.6-3.0GPA/950-1150SAT/mostly regular with some honors courses” group. The regular pace is much slower than at Pitt/PSU let alone colleges like Dickinson or Lafayette or BrynMawr/Haverford, the professors know how to push students (“N+1”) but target their classes’ happy medium.
The Honors students are much better, like you they want to learn and also want to be the first graduating college in their family or the first to have a solidly middle class life through college opportunities; as a result, peers in Honors are cool&more focused, the Honors courses are more engaging and more in-depth so you’ll need to take as close to all honors as you possibly can (except for 1 class to give yourself a break😉); professors will make sure to push you, help with opportunities… because they want you not only to succeed but to flourish and do better than you thought you could.
However for many students a Passhe college is their second or third priority after work/making money, a child, family/elderly relatives, a car that threatens to break down, a medical problem…
I’m not trying to be negative, but to make sure you go into this with your eyes open. You will find support&challenge at IUP and it’s likely to be a near full ride, which is big. But there will be other challenges.
This could interest you!
ED: some colleges meet full need (run the NPC on Lafayette, which I suggested because it is very good at science) : you’ll see they offer very large grants&scholarships. But even if you get an offer but not enough money, the only legit way to break the contract is if you let them know it wasnt enough and they can’t become affordable.
Hope you’re done with PHEAA
DO apply to Honors at SRU: it’s generally more selective than IUP, stronger for Biology/Microbiology, and it’s a Passhe so all the PHEAA&federal grants apply. Worth a visit to compare with IUP, too. But there, too, you should be in Honors.
I still think you should apply to a few more colleges (cf. Other thread). The reply deadline has been pushed to May 15 about everywhere anyway and there could be more challenging, more affordable options.
Allegheny and Muhlenberg were listed on your other thread. Both in PA so you’d benefit from some of the state grants for residents.
Wooster is nationally known for undergraduate research.
https://inside.wooster.edu/biology/
(btw, if you click on the small flag at the right hand corner, you can read it in German).