My D had this “choice” (I say that in quotation marks as at the time it was a choice of where to apply ED). She chose the better overall school, though not just for that reason. As it turns out she is one of the many students who has decided to change her major, and it turns out the school she chose has a (significantly) better program for her new major than the alternative school was. I almost want to say though, it is partly because of that - she took an elective in that department and loved it so much it sparked a new direction for her - so she may not have decided to change her major at the alternative and been perfectly happy there, had she chosen that. There are very few schools I think where one course is so “superior” to the offerings of the school as a whole, that “what if they change their major” should be an overriding factor.