I recently just decided to change what I wanted to study from medicine to engineering. Both fields have enticed me for years, and I had been leaning to medicine for a while, but now I have decided to switch to engineering. My options are to either go to a Liberal Arts College or a 4 yr state university. With the liberal arts college, I could enter a 3-2 program, where I would attend three years (probably two since I would be receiving approximately a year worth of credits from AP exams) at the LAC and then 2 yrs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and would receive 2 majors, or I could attend the LAC for a year for one year and then transfer over to UIUC or Northwestern. Or I could attend a state school right away and immediately enter their engineering program.
My question is: which of these will be best for GPA? For affordability? And how will they look to employers? To graduate schools? Overall, the question is, which option is best?