Currently, I'm in year 12. I have a very good friend from Malaysia who has decided that she wants to read Music at university. She isn't really that keen on the idea of a campus university, but her father insists on it even though he went to one of the smaller colleges that has subsequently become Imperial, so never actually experienced campus life. Ideally, she would like to be in a big city, but her father won't let her because he says that he isn't paying for her to go to university to party all night, but to work 24/7. He also thinks that the only universities she should even consider are Oxford and Cambridge, and doesn't seem to have grasped the fact that you can't just walk into Oxbridge with straight As She has been researching universities, and when she mentions places such as KCL, he just dismisses them as rubbish. I can understand that internationally, people have only really heard of Oxbridge, LSE and Imperial but with her course she can only apply to one of those. I don't really know what to say to her because I'm in a completely different situation - I'm a UK student, and my parents don't really mind what I do or where I go as long as I'm happy (to a certain extent). I was wondering if anybody has had similar experiences with their parents, and if they have any tips on how to try and get her father to understand the situation because she's getting really upset about it.