I’m an honorary Asian parent (wife is Asian, I’m European). Regarding the humanities aspect, I have one question to ask. In the ‘field’ of humanities there are lots and lots of different areas, from creative writing to sociology to psychology and so on. Have you demonstrated significant interest and achievements in one or more of them - as an example, National History Day, or acing every AP & IB history class ever created. Parents may be easier to convince if they see that their student actually puts in far more than required to get an A because they actually like the subject.