<p>kayler, I’ll pose the same question I posed to you in your parallel post on CC. I don’t understand why you would be thinking in advance of trying to transfer from either of these schools, unless you had your heart set on a college that you didn’t get into. While not everyone’s cup of tea, I chose Brandeis over similarly-sized schools such as Tufts and Colgate when I went there and I had friends at Brandeis that chose it over Cornell, Penn and other larger (and more impersonal) schools as well. You might want to clarify what you’re planning on studying and your extracuricular interests so that folks can be more specific in addressing your concerns.</p>