Quite the understatement. Harvard/Yale/Stanford don't do merit-aid scholarships so you would have to be super poor to get some financial aid and even then isn't likely to be a full-ride.
And frankly, given my undergrad, I've had quite enough with "prestige" and its supposed make-or-break net effect. Good branding, poor reflection of reality.
I think trial and error was a poor choice of words, what I meant was even if you dont get the inferences initially in that particular game, try laying out several game boards