Rollins is the cutest school ever! I loved it, but would not have suggested it to my daughter who had engineering dreams . We looked at a few schools with the 3/2 programs, and I think the LACs are just too small to support the first 2 or 3 years of engineering. One school we looked at (and it was really small) had only 5 math professors in the entire department and those profs had to teach math to non-majors too. What if you don’t like one? What if the courses aren’t offered in the order you need them? She even found Smith, which has a full engineering program (but no specialty, just general engineering), too limited in offerings.
Ask how many students successfully transfer to the second school and what their choices were. Could they get into the engineering specialty they wanted? Did all credits transfer?