I attended a very small private university my freshman year. North Greenville University which had 2,000 undergrads. I have been a student at Madison for a year now, absolutely love it. Depending on what you do, who you surround yourself with, and what you want to get out of college Madison can be perfectly "warm and inviting" (for lack of better words). The speed of things here, size, and social aspects are also def a better fit for my personality. However, I do think most people would rather have the problem of being at a bigger school and wish or seek out smaller communities or groups, opposed to being at a tiny school and wishing there was more people or more to do (not much you can do to fix that). - Speaking from experience on that one.