Guys please tell me am I being Egoistic for getting BITS (Please don't judge my AI slop body)
After 10th grade, I sacrificed my entire social life to prepare for JEE. I went the dummy school route, completely cut off my school friends, and ground hard for two years. On the other hand, a close friend of mine chose regular schooling, had zero plans to prepare for JEE, and was chilling.
After 2 years, I Got a 10k rank in JEE Advanced and scored 245 in BITSAT. Naturally, BITS Pilani was my best option.
He Got an 86 percentile in JEE Mains which he claims and a 25k–30k rank in VITEEE.
But out of nowhere, he claimed he also scored 245 in BITSAT—completely raw, with zero preparation, no coaching, and no mock tests.
The moment our friend group heard his claim, I became the absolute joke of the group. I faced endless taunts about how I "wasted two years locked in a room" just to end up with the same options as a regular school guy.
To make it weirder, he announced he was rejecting BITS for SRM Mechanical because he "liked the branch." When I logically pointed out that nobody leaves a Tier-1 college like BITS for SRM, the group completely shut me down. They accused me of being toxic and jealous, claiming he "knew how the real world works" while I was just a clueless bookworm.
Whenever we hung out or called, they brought this up to humiliate me. They mocked me for not knowing about day trading (which they think is the only metric of success). And because my looks and physique is fine (not trying to brag it but no stranger actually made fun of it instead I'm complimented for it), they hyper-fixated on targeting my height just to find a physical flaw. They constantly told me I’d fail in life even after going to BITS, while he would succeed at SRM.
Frustrated and knowing a 245 is impossible without preparation, I managed to get a hold of his actual BITSAT scorecard. His real score was barely 100. He had lied to everyone.
Hoping to clear my name, I shared his real scorecard in our WhatsApp group. Instead of being shocked at his massive lie, he immediately flipped the narrative, blaming me and claiming I’ve become "egoistic" just because I got into BITS. The rest of the group completely enabled this, turning a blind eye to his dishonesty and refusing to confront his behavior.
Today, we were just chatting on group and I playfully teased him about something minor. He immediately snapped, said incredibly vile things, and called me a failure for "not knowing anything outside of books."
That was it for me. I brought up the fact that he lied to everyone's faces about his results hiding his failure and called out every single person in that room for being an absolute hypocrite. Unsurprisingly, the entire group banded together to attack me again, claiming my ego has grown way too big just because of my Tier-1 college tag.
I have never made fun of anyone for their marks. I only brought up the truth because I was pushed into a corner and relentlessly bullied for weeks over a complete lie. Am I really the kind of guy who brags about marks and rank.