> But no, everybody can get into Ivy League. I didn't say that. I said that the universities offer scholarships which cover their assessment of financial need.

> But no, everybody can get into Ivy League. I didn't say that. I said that the universities offer scholarships which cover their assessment of financial need. They still have limited slots and are very selective. > It is obvious what I said is an exaggeration, but it carries out some truth I genuinely didn't know that you were exaggerating. I thought that was your perception. We live in a world where lots of things are true in degrees. There is some amount of snobbery at elite US universities and there s some quantity of social mobility. But exaggeration makes it really hard to talk about how much or how little and that quantity matters to understanding the problem.