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Anyone been in both cities? Best/worst and which would you choose if you had to do it again?

I am an incoming graduate student trying to make the difficult decision about which program to attend. I am mainly trying to decide between Rice, UW-Seattle, UMich-AnnArbor, and UCLA. I am interested primarily in research on biotechnology and disease modelling (ie: mechanotransduction). I'm most excited about living in Seattle, but the benefits to a private university like Rice are hard to turn down. Does anyone have any opinions of these schools, any advice to offer?