AITA for telling my brother to be realistic of our family's finance
A bit of context: I am studying abroad with a full tuition scholarship bcs I did well in high school. I'm on my 2nd year and am struggling really hard to keep up. The problem, is to maintain my scholarship I need to have a certain gpa each year. I've been doing very well this semester, but I flunked my finals. Results are out next week and I am not sure if I can maintain my scholarship.
My brother just graduated high school. He was given a chance to get a scholarship by another uni in the same country I'm currently at. However, his final grades didn't meet the required condition.
We were never allowed to study abroad unless we got a scholarship. My brother has been reminded by my parents to study well throughout high school and prepare a plan B if he doesn't get into his dream uni with a scholarship.
For example, during his final exams the last few weeks, he stayed over at his friend's houses despite having exams to study for. Now he's panicking. He had years to lock in and realize the importance to prepare uni plans and study but he's only realizing that now.
He took an exam that would allow him to study in another country but he half assed it cos he was "confident" that he'd get the scholarship, knowing damn well that at that time he was way behind the required grades.
So now that results are out and he half assed his plan A and plan B, he has very limited options.
My parents always say not to worry about finance, but I know well that it will hurt them a lot financially. They are the type to go all out for education for their kids.
I told my brother to get realistic and start applying local unis to prepare bcs he still only wants to study abroad. In USD, his full tuition fee is about $27,000 and we live in a 3rd world country.
My dad is also still keeping my brother kind of optimistic that he'll study abroad with no scholarship. But he's always said that he wont allow studying abroad if it means he has to pay full tuition. So I think he's just trying to prevent my brother from giving up.
Since I'm on my 2nd year, if i get my scholarship revoked, I would only have to pay for 2 years of tuition, and my annual tuition fee is half his tuition fee.
My brother's been asking if I think I'm going to maintain the free tuition, bcs he thinks that if i can maintain my scholarship, he will be allowed to study abroad with full tuition. but I feel like thats not the problem here. He's unprepared, thats the problem.
So AITAH?