Hello,

I have been admitted to the MLA (3-year) program at UVA, UW Seattle and Umich. It is so hard to choose where to go( especially as an internationally student with little understand about the schools and the cities)

As they are all in different college, UVA- school of architecture, UW- college of environmental design, UMich- school for environmental and sustainability. I think the teaching in these schools would be very different. 

As I know, I feel UW Seattle is more focused on sustainable design, green city. UVA more focuses on history, social ecology theory, and healthy landscape. However, I am not sure if what I feel is true. It will be awesome if anyone has been in any of these schools could give me some advices and opinions. 

My undergraduate background is forestry and I am quite interested in ecology and how to applied ecology theory into designs. Besides, since I have participated in several forest therapy projects in my undergraduate, I am also quite interested in how landscape could improve people's living quality.  

It will be extremely helpful if anyone could share your experiences or give me some advices. (Anything about the cities would also be great! Since I really have little understanding of these regions) Your answers are so precious and important to me. Thank you so much.