If you are looking for post-graduation employment and graduate school destinations, try here:
https://careers.calpoly.edu/search.php
http://careers.washington.edu/Surveys
Both are perfectly good schools for your major. It really does come down to cost versus whether you must face another highly competitive admission process to get into your major.
If OP does get admitted to UW, it looks like the average prerequisite GPA of students admitted to the EE major is around 3.4 to 3.6.
Here’s both curricula flow charts.
http://flowcharts.calpoly.edu/downloads/mymap/15-17.52EEBSU.pdf
https://www.engr.washington.edu/files/curr_students/docs/EE_reqs.pdf
According to payscale, UW wins in terms of earning potential as well.
http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/best-schools-by-majors/engineering?page=15
I wouldn’t call $100 starting difference and a $3000 mid career difference a big coup. Plus, PayScale data is fraught with flaws, not the least of which, the data is all self reported. It’s very likely a wash in earnings potential.
Personally, I think they are all great choices and OP should pick whichever he and his parents like best, but OP is seeking some quantification of which is best and the rankings (which place them all very close together) are all that’s available.
Just because the rankings are all that are available (which isn’t really true) doesn’t mean that they are somehow definitive. They (USNWR) are definitive if you want to know about the relative reputations of each school among the rest of the schools. They (Payscale) are definitive if you somehow find salary data that is entirely self-reported and not in any way adjusted for geographical factors to be useful.
Ultimately, though, there are a whole bunch of factors that go into which school is best for an individual, and acting like a couple hundred smackeroos or a few places in a popularity contest are somehow definitive on their own is simply silly.
After recapping the advice given by all of you on this thread, I see each school with the following Pros and Cons:
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So yeah, going to weigh these pros and cons and see where to go from there!
@colcon101, classes at CP are much easier to get than they used to be. Remember the typical EE curriculum is roughly 192 hours, 12 more than the average CP UG degree. having the extra hours helps to lighten the per semester load which makes keeping your grades up less difficult (it’s still hard). As for the dorms, some are really nice, but the best one for engineering, Sierra Madre in the Red Bricks is old with small rooms. The students in there however are what make it such a great experience. The culture at CP is largely to move off campus after first year anyway. As for the graduate program, that’s plus/minus. You won’t find as many super cool cutting edge projects going on at CP, but UGs are largely shielded away from those anyway. The advantage, you’ll be taught by professors in all classes, even labs and discussions. They are UG focussed for sure. There is a 4+1 coterminal BS/MS degree. That you might be able to finish in 4 years. Off to the PM. 
An engineering degree from UW (or any good accredited school) also opens doors to jobs everywhere.
@chardo, Yeah I may be wrong on that notion, I’ve just heard that the prestige of the department and school is what determines its appeal to recruiters, and to be honest, I find it unclear what the reputation of UW is in other regions of the country.
Let’s just say that my son, a senior EE at Alabama, has interned, interviewed, and received multiple job offers from major companies in FL, TX, NH, NY, MD, AZ, and AL. Engineering recruiters care about what you know and what you can do.
Truth be told, most engineers will land their first jobs in the same region as their school regardless of reputation. That’s because smaller companies don’t have the budget to recruit everywhere. If you are active though, and go seek out jobs, a degree from any of those will be accepted. If you look specifically at the EE placements from Poly last year, nearly all of them landed jobs in CA. The same holds for UDub, nearly all landed in WA. Alabama may be a bit of an exception for a state school due to their very generous scholarship program for high stats students. They get quite a few students from out of state who probably have no interest in living in Alabama for the rest of their lives, thus, they get jobs elsewhere.
Most large company recruiters go where they can find a large group of students in one place from all majors to fulfill their company needs. These usually happen to be very large public universities and frankly I don’t believe Purdue has an upper hand just because USNWR bestows a high ranking on them compared to other schools.
I really don’t understand how one can start start with 2 years worth of credits, do one year of non-major engineering but finish an electrical engineering degree at the end of year 2. I don’t feel one is getting a good education doing that by going to either a high ranked or low ranked school and that is just a personal point of view.
@texaspg, With regards to your claim on exposure to the specialty, I currently have all non-major pre-reqs done (Physics, Calculus, English comp, Computer Science (Java) etc.). All that is left for me to do is EE courses, linear algebra, and differential equations.
In other words, there is nothing left for me to take at UW except for the major courses, meaning I would get 2 years of EE courses just like everybody else.
The other schools are a similar scenario, with the exception of repeating courses that weren’t accepted.
@colcon101 - If you only have EE courses left, why are they forcing you to spend an year with an undeclared major? It would seem like something like that should be reserved for a true freshman and not someone coming in with 2 years of completed college coursework. In reality you should be treated as a transfer.
Yeah I know haha I guess there’s something wrong with a HS student applying as a transfer. That’s why I mentioned it being a con, the fact that UW is making me apply to the department again for spring 2017 is a risk I’m not sure I’m willing to take
There are some issues usually with engineering majors which requires planning through 3-4 years for completion. One of the main issues is that they will require specific classes to be taken and then offer them only alternate years. Sometimes the prerequisites require additional prerequisites and unless you can check the requirements and plan out the entire path to graduation, I would bet on you needing at least 3 years despite having 2 years worth of credits.
High school students who take college courses while in high school are usually taking a “general education” selection of courses, or courses in a specific subject of interest, rather than selecting them to transfer to a university in a specific major. So the two years worth of college credit earned in high school may only advance the student by a semester/quarter or year, based on what the specific courses apply to in terms of subject credit (OP can check the requirements at each school and see what his/her completed course work may apply to). For this reason, colleges generally do not consider students transfers if they take college courses before high school graduation.
Unfortunately, the OP did not get direct admission to the EE major at UW, so s/he must apply to the major after completing some courses as an undeclared student, if s/he goes there (and if rejected from the major, must find a different major or transfer to another school).
@ucbalumnus - It sounds like OP is in state with an AA degree or something like that for which he/she is getting full two year credit at UW that meet the engineering degree requirements(?).
The question I have is if they are giving OP 2 years worth of credits, what is the point of giving a general engineering admission when OP seems to have finished most of the classes expected from freshman/sophomore years already?