sicks06, most students who visit both cal and ucla have a strong preference for one over the other. Make the visits, talk to current students, you'll know which is right for you. Both are top schools and you'll have good career prospects from either. And both share similar disadvantages as far as large class size, importance of grad students vs undergrad, etc.
Also, I'd take into account where you'd want to go if you change out of engineering. The stats are bleak on EECS; according at a trade newspaper
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According to most statistics, engineering schools graduate between one-third and one-half of the students who start out in engineering programs. Electrical engineering is particularly hard hit, with approximately 20,000 students graduating out of the 60,000 who enter EE programs each year (see http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020712S0041) |
I'm not saying you're going to be one of them, but with odds like that its worth at least thinking about where you'd want to be if you decide to change.