There is hole in the middle of your thesis:
You say that want to leave your current school b/c after a year and a half it still doesn’t ‘fit’. Fair enough.
But… if that was the core issue surely you would be looking for other schools that meet all of what you are looking for- academics, social, etc. Yet, the only school you are looking at as an alternative is one that you call “inferior”, but is near home and where your HS friends are.
And although I don’t know where you go to college, there is a decent bet that your winter break is just coming to an end and you have been having a happy time with your pals at Home U, and are not looking forward to going back to your own college where you sit in your dorm, unhappily, by yourself.
So. How is this not mostly wanting to go where everybody knows your name? That would be fair enough also- it’s just a different conversation and decision metrics.
Have you actually checked online to see how the classes you have taken map to the distribution requirements of Home U? It might not be as bad as you fear. But, if you really would have to do 2 extra years of college, then imo- and depending on your parents finances, perhaps your parents also- taking 6 years to do a 4 year degree so that you can “be in a better place socially” is not a great use of time or money.
ps, if you are spending most of your time in your dorm alone- and that is not something that makes you happy- then you need to own that your ‘best efforts’ may need revising. Have you declared your concentration? are you spending a lot of time in that department? My collegekids found that as people started declaring, they developed a whole new friend group with the other people in their subject area. A lot of them started as just foxhole buddies- in a lot of the same classes / doing the same work & exams- but some of them turned into real friends.