When choosing between these schools, they're all relatively prestigious so that shouldn't be too much of a worry here. A big thing I've always heard is to "go wherever you can get a job after you graduate". Since they're all nice schools, take prestige out of the question for now. Cost will be a major factor, as well as survivability (friends/weather/social life), because prestige can't really secure you a *much* higher salary after graduating, plus your specialty isn't too competitive to where it will matter where you went. So, UCI sounds like the best option to me. But of course, this is a huge decision, so take as many opinions as you can! 🙂