<p>Have you visited both? Ann Arbor and Urbana/Champaign may both be ‘college towns’ but they aren’t all that similar. And that may not matter to you at all, of course.</p>
<p>If the only difference is that you have to wait a year to get into the business school at Michigan, that doesn’t sound like an overwhelming reason to pass on Michigan–unless it implies you will not graduate in four years.</p>
<p>I would think you can find out whether or not Michigan, and Illinois, have a cappella groups and active business frats by doing a web search. I would expect both to have both.</p>