<p>Weather wise you will be happiest at GaTech, UT-Austin or UC-Berkeley. The other schools will be much colder than you are used to in the Philippines.</p>
<p>Cost wise, I don’t know, but I imagine UMinn might be the cheapest.</p>
<p>Socially, you will probably be happiest at Berkeley because it’s filled with asians (including Koreans) and you will fit right in.</p>
<p>All the schools are good ones, you can’t go wrong. There is probably another thread on this web site that ranks the ChemE depts. Do a search. GPA is probably not so important in ChemE as long as it’s 3.0 or above.</p>