ann arbor is overrated.

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Look what University of Michigan recruiters did to get Andy Bartholomew to say yes.

They flew the Allderdice High School senior to Ann Arbor for a weekend and put him up in an executive residence. They didn’t wine him, but they dined him in style, even arranging for a harpist to serenade him and other top academic prospects as professors chatted them up.

Is this kind of recruiting, and the full four-year scholarships that go along with it, for non-athlete (at least it doesn’t mention he’s an athlete) prospective out-of-state undergrads de rigueur now at public universities?