AITA for choosing a university three hours away?

My two best friends (mostly one, J) are upset at me for choosing a uni three hours away from our town.

For some context, to apply for university where I live, you go on a website and pick the course you want to get into (eg. bachelor of biomedicine) and then the university (if they offer it). The exams you take at the end of the year determine if you get into university or not. It's a ranked system so, if you get a better score than 70% of all the students who did the exam, you would get a 70. The courses have a requirement to get into it so, if you got a 70 but the requirement was an 85, you can't do the course. There are other factors tho that allows you to get in even if you don't get high enough but, it's complicated.

Earlier last year, all the students from my school put our preferences. My friends knew what courses I had put down since I think July because they were literally sitting next to me. I had put down optometry at a school 3 hours from where I live bc it's the only school that offers it. My 3 back up courses were at the same university because I planned on transferring courses after one year if I didn't get a high enough score. They literally knew before July that I wanted to take optometry at that school.

Fast forward to December 12, our scores are released. My score just missed the requirement and I was rlly sad bc I knew I wasn't getting into optometry but, I could still get into my back ups. All three of us called and their scores weren't high enough either. Fast forward again to December 23, I get an email at 5 am. I got into optometry. My score was increased because of my disadvantage of living in a rural area. My other friend, J, didn't get any offers. She was rlly suprised when I got in because none of us thought I would.

After some time, we were talking about school again and she asked me how I was going to get to uni everyday bc it was so 'far away'. I told her I was moving out. She was suprised because my parents are on the stricter side and thought they would never let me move so far away. I said that they really care about my education and not letting me do my dream course (especially something in health bc my mum is a nurse and my dad is a theater tech) would be pretty shitty of them.

Now, I think it's rlly sunk into their heads that I'm moving away and they're kinda upset at me. I told them that they can still visit me and it's not like I'm moving to another country but they're like 'nope. it's not going to be the same' or 'we're not going to see you because you're moving so far away' (idk if they're being genuine or not). We've also been more distant with each other because I'm busy dealing with moving and university and they're just chilling, going out all the time because they don't rlly have anything planned.

I feel bad now. I feel like I'm ruining our friendship because we won't be able to spend as much time with each other anymore. AITA?