Cal or other Top Tier Schools? With California Community College Credit

MYOS1634,

Many if not most of the good stuff you said about MIT are also available to Berkeley College of Engineering undergrad students. I even heard from a friend that one undergrad EECS student is making 25k/mo as an intern in Silicon Valley. The guy broke a record!
I think you exaggerated it a bit for MIT.

Berkeley, MIT and Stanford – these three – are peer schools for STEM. Among them, neither is much better than the other.