Ah, but you probably did....
It's all what one makes of it.
I’m talking about fairly recent grads. I applied to and got accepted by Dartmouth (’80s era). The scholarship offer I got (probably small then and definitely now, but don’t recall figure) wasn’t even close to enough to go there. I probably could have come up with more scholarship money but I didn’t have time to do all that as I had about a 2 week window to decide in the spring of my HS senior year.
No regrets in not going there but I would have now go somewhere other than where I started.