<p>Neighbor’s kid went to a highly ranked LAC as a math major and felt pretty constrained on the math front. (He’d gone having already completed multivariate calculus at our local flagship, as I recall.) Transferred to the flagship and was happy as a clam because there were so many more classes and professors to pick from and they welcomed his enrollment in a number of graduate classes that were in areas of math that matched his interests. He did the Budapest semester in math (which is a pretty famous program, I gather) and worked with several of the professors on research projects. </p>
<p>I know more who’ve transferred for financial reasons, or homesickness, but he’s the one I know who simply decided that he wanted a bigger pond academically. </p>
<p>(I think this might have been very different had his interests been something more in the humanities.)</p>