ERUA - Daytona, that is, was actually my top school choice for a while, with PSU being 2nd in line. Yes, ERAU is a very very good aerospace school. Originally I wanted to do stuff in the air traffic control world .... but eventually morphed to aerospace engineering ... and finally mechanical engineering.
Had a chance to visit the campus the summer before my freshman year, and I liked it. Though, the campus is an interesting set up, being that the ROTC stuff is on the other side of the highway. It seemed like a decent small school to me; nice small classes with plenty of one on one professor opportunity; felt like a place where I could fit in. Disclaimer: during this time, I was predominantly on the AFROTC boat. But something just didn't quite feel right. I think a big thing for me, was the distance factor; hailing from PA, FL is quite a ways away ... not to mention expensive for flights to and from.
And on the flip side, there was PSU. If you don't know what PSU is .... or mistakenly think it stands for some place called Portland State University ... then you must be living under a rock, but I digress. PSU is a very big campus; I routinely walk about 4-7 miles each day, to and from classes (solely just walking to class, not including PT, etc). It's got a very good ROTC program across all branches and has a solid engineering program across the board as well - so there's no going wrong there. For me, part of the reason why I chose a big school, was because of the shear amount of choices I had --> in the event that I didn't like major A and wanted to switch to major XYZ. And that proved to come in handy. I never quite knew how strong ERAU's mechanical program was compared to aerospace engineering, but I had no doubt that both those majors at Penn State were good ones. And yeah, sure class sizes can be humongous (largest seats around 800-900), but that honestly didn't bother me. But I guess what I'm trying to say is, Penn State was just right for me; for a variety of different reasons.
I know that probably wasn't a well organized statement, but here's my point:
Gonna steal a line from what Pima told me once, but if you were to close you eyes, where do you see home to be? If you can think of a place pretty much right off the bat, then I think you know what the answer is.
Good luck.