My son wants to transfer to R1 school with GPA 3.4 in BME after 1st semester freshman year

Yes, we looked into Rutgers, big school though. He wanted something smaller
Thank you
At this point, its to late, he applied to schools above. I wanted more to hear successful transfer stories for freshman. He googled the % acceptance for transfer students, i was just curious how accurate are those numbers ( internet, google)