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So there two top schools in both their fields and academically fairly close, you'll be in contact with world class professors at both places. The difference? Stanford will be, in my eyes, in a better location in terms of weather, and a more wide array of people studying much different things from engineering. Given MIT is in boston and there a alot of schools there, its still not the same as having people down the hall studying things much different from you, trust me the conversations are really interesting. Another point I'd like to make is that going to MIT is basically declaring your field of study in engineering and the sciences for certain. There is no turning back. At stanford you can always change to something else if you find you don't like engineering, and trust me as much as anyone likes engineering in high school, when you get to college and go through a year of it you might realize its not for you.

So you have an idea of my perspective I go to the University of Pennsylvania in philly and am a sophomore in EE.