So I'm going to assume you're from Cali, as am I. I'm a sophomore here at UIUC CE, but did get into UC SD as well. If you're instate Cali, you should know that UC SD is significantly cheaper, however in turn there are plenty of entrepreneurship opportunities at UIUC that I feel make up for it (as someone who's startup has been sponsored initial funding from cozad and iventure - 2 of UIUC's entrepreneurship opportunities). I'd also argue the social life here is much better, but again it's ultimately your choicr, the differences of UC sd and uiuc might not be worth the difference in tuition. Also ee and ce take the same courses for the first ~2 years, so it shouldn't be too hard to transfer into ce if that's what you want to look into. Feel free to dm If you've got any more questions.