Should I transfer from UC Berkeley to Stanford, MIT, etc.?

Having degrees from both Berkeley and Stanford, let me say: I have never seen an undergraduate limited by the opportunities from Berkeley EECS in terms of a Computer Science education. You mention "opportunities and resources that aren't available to me at Berkeley" - can you list some specific examples? I think you may be suffering from a bit of the grass is greener syndrome. Unless you have a specific professor, specific program, or specific research topic you want to work on at one of the schools you listed, the truth is that Stanford is really not that different. No one is going to be patting you on the back or walking you through your life. You're going to have to take responsibility for your own success, just like at any university. I really challenge you to find an instance of a resource that has been denied to you where you put 100% of your effort into gaining it. * The only caveat to this, which you didn't mention in the question, is that Stanford has a much closer connection to startups than Berkeley does.

I fully agree with Jessica. However, if you are an in-state student, then Cal Berkeley should be less expensive than either MIT or Stanford to get your SB (as it is called at MIT). Then go to MIT for your SM degree and have MIT pay you to study there (as a Research Assistant) or the same thing at Stanford.  One must look at the Whole picture.  The transfer process can be rough, And you will not get on-campus housing at MIT and will need to find an off-campus apartment as a transfer student (unless you are a current member of a Fraternity that also has a chapter at MIT).  Make your mark where you are and then use that to leverage an excellent graduate degree appointment.

My degrees are from Berkeley. I did my undergraduate in Mathematics A.B. and graduate work (both undergraduate and graduate courses at the same time) in EECS M.S. Because I lack experience, my thesis advisor suggested that I worked in industry, so I took a job in Palo Alto and took graduate classes at Stanford returning to Berkeley to complete my degree. Berkeley was my first and only choice: my grandmother, father, mother and uncle all went to Berkeley. I was 16 when I was admitted at the local college, and since in I was already admitted to college, I applied to only one school, Berkeley: I did not get in as a Freshman but transfer at a Junior. But my transfer was from a State University to Berkeley, and I had a history of applying as a Freshman. This is not your case. You are at a top University asking to be admitted at another top University. There are two questions: Should I apply to Stanford or MIT? And if admitted, should I go? Before applying, I recommend you talk with your advisor and your teachers to see what they says. If they are willing to recommend you, then I do recommend that you apply at Stanford and/or MIT keeping Berkeley as a backup school, but frankly, transfers student are usually from two or four year Colleges, not from top schools. However, I should warn you that it is rare to do your graduate work at the same school as your undergraduate - most school want their students to go else where - so if your long term goals is a graduate work at Stanford or MIT transferring from Berkeley might not be the right move. It would be better to complete your degree at Berkeley and do graduate work at Stanford or MIT.