I knew I could come on here to get back to sanity. These articles just bug me to death. My old HS just this year had a student accepted to Yale. Probably one of maybe two or three in the last 40 years going to an ivy. The article of course says on full scholarship.
I have been in plenty of situations where someone was telling me about a scholarship to an Ivy or scholarship for athletics to DIII school that I have just started smiling politely.
I once had a pretty strong argument with a friend about full-ride to AL. I kept saying you need a 36 OOS and he said no. We decided our definition of full-ride was different.