<p>Hi, i'm an international student currently confused whether I should go to University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities or University of Michigan-Ann Harbor. I'm taking Chemical Engineering major. I would like to ask a few thing regarding the cities, weather and other stuff about those univ since i cant come to visit them personally.. Thanks for the answers guys.</p>
<p>hey go to UMN.its the second-best chemical engineering school in the nation after MIT.as for the weather,there r winters and summers since they are all in the north</p>
<p>All three are excellent colleges with nice campuses. They differ in weather mainly by number of cold months. Minn, the most northern of the three is generally cold from mid October to mid-April (and is still quite cool the rest of those two months); Mich November through March; UIUC mid to late-Nov to early March. All three can have some below zero (Fahrenheit) temps in December, Jan or Feb with Minn carrying the most risk of that and of having more than the others. During that time you can get what are called "artic blasts" which are high pressure sytems coming down from upper Canada and they pass over Minn first and head down and over to Mich and UIUC. A really powerful one can sometimes send mid-winter temps to well below zero. Minn usually has the earliest first snow of the season (sometimes starting in October). Mich usually not until latter part of Nov and UIUC December. At any of the three you can be looking out you're window in the morning in late Jan/early Feb and see 8 to 10 inches of new snow, temps at zero, winds at 20 miles an hour, and wondering to yourself why you were such a fool to come here.</p>
<p>Minneapolis/St. Paul are two very nice and fairly large cities with many city type things to do. Minneapolis also has an indoor shopping mall that also serves as an amusement park and is about the size a small town itself; basically a walk completely around it is about 2 miles.</p>
<p>Ann Arbor is nice and fits the term "college town"; Champaign/Urbana to a certain extent does too, particularly around the campus but those cities are not as nice as most of Ann Arbor. From Mich or Minn you can go to places to see hills and find skiing. UIUC is in flat country -- travel 50 miles in any direction and you will see mostly farms and forests and your car will hardly ever go up or down any incline.</p>
<p>Wow, thanks a lot Drusba. I am even more confused now :) anyway got acceptance from Boston University for Biomedical Engineering(it's darn pricey though). Any suggestions ?</p>