Years ago, I chose my college because it had the best program for what I was doing. (Easy choice there - one of 2.) I was involved on campus but socially, but it was never the right place for me. I seriously thought about transferring., I decided against it because the reason for leaving would be that I didn’t want to be there. I felt like it should be that I wanted to be somewhere else. In other words, the call of another place needed to be stronger than the desire to get out. Of course, I could have worked at finding the place that called me but I didnt, in part because of academics.
I took a year abroad. I got involved in a couple of non school things in the city where the school was. I had friends that I did things with. In other words, I made a life in which school was simply one of the things I did. It worked fine. When I graduated, my life in a new city looked similar except that I worked instead of going to school.
I can honestly say that I would not have wanted my child to have that kind of college experience and really urged him to explore fit, but this is to say that you have options beyond transferring. And that if you do transfer, you should be very intentional about it.