<p>I agree with PurpleTitan regarding UIUC CS. The couple I knew in Silicon Valley were both from UIUC. The husband hit the jackpot with CISCO and the wife hit the jackpot with Apple when it was less $20 a share.
I gave my daughter a list of Midwestern schools to apply for rolling admission/EA, she picked U of Michigan and Purdue but not UIUC, I was slightly regretted about that.
But even in one company that I worked, there full ex-CISCO people with UCB EECS degrees, guess who were the director of engineering, a Brooklyn city something graduate. I also worked in the East Coast when I first graduated with lots of MIT people, so I’m aware of the East Coast bias, but there are a lot of good CS schools in California. Why go into debt for $100K while you don’t have to?
I would dig deeper, some of the UCs are able to attract top candidates from top schools like MIT, Caltech, Stanford.</p>