<p>go to Stanford for ECE. All these schools are fantastic. However, Stanford (along with UCB) has a location advantage.</p>
<p>Stanford is down the street from Intel, Google, HP, etc. (not literally but you know what i mean). </p>
<p>Surely Stanford's alumni network at these places is bigger than MIT, even if MIT will teach you to design a better circuit. </p>
<p>Of course you can get jobs at those places from MIT, but its not a car ride away for internships/networking/interviews..could be harder. </p>
<p>This of course assumes you actually want to be an EE and you aren't using your BS as a stepping stone to Mckinsey or Goldman :P.</p>
<p>also, boston sucks. (lifelong native). its alright, but it can't compare to san fran and california in general. stanford is beautiful. MIT is ugly. list goes on.</p>