Idk I had an admissions officer from a “need blind” school tell me in an interview that need is considered.
On the flip side, the match is highly competitive, more so than any of the kids in the group really know. Saying that an application may not even be looked could be a way for non-matched students to feel better. Having said that these messages were made before the match results and one of the commentators who said that Bowdoin said that not all applications can be read, is actually a QB kid there now.
I could understand why either side might be true, all in all though, I am not too awful worried about it. I wasn’t interested in any non-binding school but Yale and at the time I hadn’t visited any other schools. I won’t make a binding decision to a school I’ve never been to and my EFC is so low that the match scholarship doesn’t really change anything for me financially.
I’ll take it all with a grain of salt 
Typo above, lol there are not 140,000 finalists hahaha