<p>UPDATE: It’s working! It’s working! Two days ago, I teamed up with my younger sister and I to show the PowerPoint after the movie we watched. I quickly got changed and got the PowerPoint up on the computer while my sister distracted my parents with giving them prospectuses to look at.</p>
<p>My mom, of course, immediately casted away the prospectus and was extremely annoyed, but my dad looked at the prospectuses and I think became slightly warmed up to the idea. I had them sit down so they could view the PowerPoint (this was late at night, so everything was dark and the PowerPoint was seen better) and gave my presentation on it.</p>
<p>The result? Not so great. My mom pretended to be asleep during the presentation, and my dad seemed impassive about the whole thing. I suppose it was hard to imagine all this going on, with just quick facts and stats.</p>
<p>When I asked them if they wanted to see the video of the campuses I had created, my dad said that would be a waste of time, so I went on to my last step: showing the DVDs the schools had provided along with the prospectuses.</p>
<p>First I showed Choate’s, but barely got through three minutes of it. Literally, my dad said that he didn’t want to see this and it was again, a waste of time.</p>
<p>I then put Deerfield’s DVD on, which was a big hit. I could tell that even my mom was interested in this! My dad couldn’t stop gushing about how wonderful and beautiful Deerfield was :)</p>
<p>The last DVD I had was Exeter’s. It was getting pretty late at night, about 12 AM, so we only watched a part of it. However, I could tell that my dad was definitely leaning towards letting me do this. My mom, though, was extremely angry at both my sister and I. She thought I was just trying to get out of the house and all that.</p>
<p>Last night, I sent them both an email thanking them for coming to my “seminar.” I copy&pasted the links of all the school’s websites that I was interested in, and I included the general links cake_dolls posted earlier in this thread.</p>
<p>My mom hasn’t read the email yet, but my dad has. Just now he came up to me and told me I’d have to get a scholarship or something, since we can’t afford 40k each year. I told him that I was currently looking into various scholarships that I may be eligible for (a partial lie, I had looked at scholarships in the past but not right now), but we’d definitely need to apply for FA, or else we’d come into a huge problem. Since some schools don’t usually allow you to apply for FA after you are admitted (Choate), we’d need to apply now.</p>
<p>After this spiel just now, he was just quiet. I think both my mom and him are coming to terms that I’m not trying to leave the house, but instead that I am trying for better opportunities, education, teachers, arts, athletics, etc.</p>
<p>:)</p>