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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Flaky-Eagle-1056 on 2023-08-09 19:47:21.

Last year, I graduated from college. I went to what many would consider a good, mid-tier university. It is not at the same level as an ivy league university (ivy leagues are some of the best private universities in the United States), but it is one of the better public universities in the US.

My parents and my younger sister came to my college campus to attend my graduation. My younger sister was a junior in high school at the time and has now just finished her senior year and graduated high school. A few days before my graduation, I gave my parents and sister a tour of my college campus. A few times, I asked my sister if she liked the campus because maybe, just maybe, she’d end up going to the same college as me. My parents told me not to provoke my sister and that she would get into a much better college because her high school grades and test scores are much higher than what mine were. So I dropped the subject entirely after a while.

My sister applied to a bunch of colleges this past year. Of course she applied to the top-tier schools in the US, such as the ivy leagues, but she also applied to some mid and lower tier schools as a backup just in case. My parents and sister were confident that my sister would get accepted somewhere ranked higher than the college I went to. But lo and behold, the best college my sister got accepted to was the same college I went to. All the better universities rejected her, even though her high school grades and test scores were much higher than mine.

My sister is getting ready to start her first year at the college I graduated from. Yesterday during dinner, my family was reminiscing over visiting the college campus when I graduated. I brought up that I wasn’t wrong when I said my sister would end up in the same college as me. I essentially said “I told you so”. This brought a sour note upon my family. My parents said I should be hyping up my sister and not putting her down.

Am I the asshole?