Here are some ideas to help convince your parents.

1. Maturity. You will grow up and get experiences overcoming some of the biggest challenges of your life. You will learn great people skills and gain the ability to get along with people from all walks of life.

2. Language. You will have the opportunity for language and cultural immersion, the proven best way to learn! People who speak more than one language are in high demand in the workforce and can often command a higher salary.

3. College. Colleges and university LOVE exchange students and many prestigious ones offer preferred admissions and sometime scholarship money.

4. Citizenship. While you are learning to appreciate another culture and country, you will also be getting a deeper understanding of your own. As an exchange student, you’ll be finding yourself researching the U.S. political systems, history and culture — so you can explain it to your new friends! You’ll be a young ambassador for the U.S.

5. Fun! Yes, it will be fun and exciting. It will also be boring and you’ll be homesick at times too — but that’s part of the experience and you should let your parents know you realize this.

6. Expenses. This is expensive! Offer to pay for part of it and apply for scholarships. Get a job so you can pay your own personal expenses.

7. Research! Before approaching your parents again, do some research. Find some good organizations. Rotary is the cheapest, but most competitive. You can find a list of all of those certified to operate in the U.S. at www.csiet.org. Contact your school counselor for a recommendation as well. An organization is only as good as the local people who represent it.

8. Have a plan. Talk to your counselor about how you could arrange your classes so you graduate on time.

9. Go to www.exchangestudentworld.com. This site was developed for exchange students around the world and it will have a lot of information for both you and your parents. If you should be lucky enough to go, it also has a diary you can keep.

10. Meet and get to know the exchange students at your school (if you have some). Invite them home to meet your parents. The best “persuasion” might come from kids already doing it!

Good luck! I hope you realize your goal!

Persistance! That’s the best thing I can say. I tried telling my parents I wanted to study abroad a few years ago for the first time. 1st they were none to happy, 2nd they thought it was just we making this decision on a whim and didn’t take me to seriously. So I ended up going back to the same college I was at last year (the one my parents want me to attend) and just like last year, i hate it. I wish to God I’d ‘ve bugged them more. Recently I brought the matter up again. But this time I want them to seem I’m serious. I’ve printed tons of info on the study abroad programs and schools im thinkin of attending. And have even started making plans as if i were really going. If you show your parents that you are mature enough by doing on the appropriate research and talking to them seriously about the matter on a regular basis, you may be able to break ground. It’s not guarantee but it’s worth a try. What do you have to lose? Good luck!

I think the way to convince my parents to let me fo abroad with AFS for the summer is to give reasons why I want to go there. In my case , when I need something I ask my parents to buy by giving reasons. The reasons for this topic can be,, that I can learn another language in the place where the people are speaking that language. And so, that it would be much familier to use that language. The other reason can be that by studying abroad, we can have the new foreign friends.

tell them of the advantages you will have in the future by going to a foreign country. you gain networks and leadership experience, understand new cultures, new languages and search on the internent to make sure its safe there and if it is tell them. Also how much money are you planning on raising since they are expensive.

There are alot of opportunities to go abroad when your in college, and you also get alot of financial help from organizations if you apply and put your mind into it. I think you would enjoy it more when you are a little older so that your experience wont be limited due to your age.

but if your still thinking about it now, good luck!