My daughter who I would have thought could use more help, more of a small learning experience and who wanted a small college is at a smaller flagship (10,000 undergrads) and loves it, is very happy to have more choices and in fact didn’t like the small department she was originally in (about 100 majors). The school administration is a breeze to work with.
Other daughter is at a smaller school (3500) and has bigger classes, professors who aren’t all that cuddly, and an administrative staff that I wish would fall into the ocean. Any small issue can become a big one. Lost documents, mixed up files, two different student numbers. Sometimes there is only one section of a class and there can be a conflict.
Small doesn’t mean coddling and big doesn’t mean bad.