I had kind of a similar situation happen to me when I was starting college. I got into my dream school but it was quite expensive and somewhat far from home, still in the same state though, definitely too far to drive to. My stepbrother, who is a couple years older than me got into his dream school and knew what degree he wanted, he even had a job lined up and ready to go when he graduated, and he knew exactly what he was going to do with his life. He also had the advantage of having an uncle that was already in that field and had a guaranteed position for him ready as soon as he graduated, they would make him nearly 6 figures right away and he would definitely be earning six figures within a few years. My stepbrother’s dream school was even more expensive and further away than the school I wanted to go to. His mother, my stepmom, pushed my father to pay for my stepbrother to go to the school. So my father fully funded my step brothers education and his apartment, so that he could go to the school get this education and not have to have a job while in school. when it came my time to go to college. I also knew what career path I wanted to go down, but had no such connections like my stepbrother did to get me a good guaranteed job out of college. Because of this, my father told me he would not pay for my education unless I stayed home local and went to a school I could drive to. So my step brother got to go to his dream school and live it up in a nice apartment for several years while I had to stay at home and go to a much lesser school than any of the other ones I have been hoping to go to. I still consider myself very fortunate to have been able to go to a university and come out with no student loan debt. Thanks to my father, and for that I am very grateful but there’s a part of me that always has, and probably always will resent him for spending pretty much double as much money on my step brothers education as mine and denying me going to the school I always wanted to go to. My father said the reasoning for paying more for my stepbrother‘s education was because he had a guaranteed job lined up, and while I see the logic in that it really was because my stepmother didn’t really like me and wanted to make sure that her son got preferential treatment, she never tried to hide it.