college confusion

Okay, so as of late, I'm completely confuzzled as far as college goes. I've narrowed my scope down to 2 colleges: Iowa State University and Drake University. Both institutes carry my program of interest, and are in my home state, so that's not where the controversy lies. The fact is that idk where I'd feel more comfortable.

ISU is a large state campus that pretty much dominates Ames(the city where its located) and has tons of people. Both of my older brothers(1 who dropped out during the semester and the other who left after the semester) went there and there's that feeling that I won't be able to handle it either. Several of my good friends this year are going there after graduation (including Ervin) and acouple of my older friends are freshmen there this(Chad and Cluney). So the familiarity of friends is a big draw to ISU.

Drake, on the other hand, is a medium-sized, private school(private as in not a state school and is almost ivy league), I've only met one or two people who've graduated from there and the only person I know who goes there is Daniel's cousin, Nate. So friends who I already know are pretty much out of the question, but with a smaller school it'd be easier to get to know more people. Also Drake has offered me a $10,000 scholarship to attend their institute, and that's not chump change.

Over all, what I want out of a college is a good program for my major, and not to feel lost in a crowd. I dealt with that for most od high school and I just started feeling like I'm part of something this year, so going back to nothing would suck big time. Mom and I are going to visit both campuses agian and she wants me to spend time with my friends at both universities to see if they can help sway me either way, so we'll see.

(Update 2/12/11: Chad has really pulled me to the ISU side of this puzzle.)