all right, i'm brand new to this site so i'm sorry if this is in the wrong place, but i have a problem and would be grateful of any suggestions.
in short, my parents don't seem to want me to go to uni. i'm sure you can guess from my username what i want to study, so you can see that any career in that field would require a degree (i actually want to be a reasearch physicist); everything seems to be in my favour: i'm from a low income (dependant on benefits) family, in an area where traditionally few people go to uni, my most local uni (about 20-25 miles) is one of the best in the country for physics and has schemes in place to give lower entry grades to people in my area, my parents didn't go to uni (although one of them earned their degree in the army when training as an electrical engineer) so i would get the privillages of the whole 'first one in the family going to uni' thing, and there are a series of 'exceptional circumstances' (that i would rather not get into right now) that would also go some way to ensuring a lower entry criteria.
so when it come to getting the course i want at my preferred uni, i'm in with a good chance, but when i talk to my parents about it they quickly change the topic; often they just talk at me about it rather than discussing it with me. my dad never really speaks about it and has told me that after my A-levels i'll go straight into work; they say that even the most local uni (25 miles) is too far away (i was planning on living at home, and my parents want that too (on the one occasion we actually managed to speak about it at all)) even though it's straight down the motor way and there is a near-direct bus link, and say it'll be too costly travel.
they have always been supportive except over this, i have no support from them at all, and i'll need it (for all the normal reasons and because for me moving away isn't an option (i'd rather not explain why now) so please don't reply saying 'you're old enough now, just apply anyway').
how can i talk them round?
thanks in advance.