<p>It seems Cal wins particularly in engineering for academics and admission is a smidge more competitive. No question Cal wins on reputation. But UCLA is such a beautiful campus and offers an entirely different college experience. I think each person has to decide it they want reputation and the high ranking program at Cal, or if they want a very respected engineering but lifestyle of UCLA. I wouldn’t pay OOS rates for either of them, too crowded. For that $, I would go to good private school.</p>