Berkeley or Urbana Champaign?
menloparkbum: Go to Berkeley. The weather is better. The town is cooler. It's close to the ocean. And the mountains. There are cuter asian girls (and better looking men.) The school itself is ranked higher... in every subject. It's the best public university in the country.No matter what your major, it's a university everyone in the WORLD has heard of before. You are therefore considered smart for going there even if you major in Psychology. UIUC is only known in Illinois and some engineering circles.Nobody goes to Berkeley and thinks "I should have gone to UIUC." But they do wonder the other way around.(I went to university in the midwest and moved to Berkeley after I graduated, and then kicked myself for not even trying to go to Berkeley or Stanford.)