I am considering transferring from a lower tier D1 school in a power 5 conference to a D2 such as Colorado School of Mines, Adams State, or Western Washington. My PRs are 1:57.xx in the 800m, 4:17.xx in the 1600m, 9:28 in the 3200m, and 15:50 in 5k cross country (on a relatively slow course). I have yet to race track in college.
I was a recruited walk-on (meaning I took an official visit but did not sign an NLI) and I am realizing that maybe running D1 at a large state school was not the best decision. Of course, hindsight remains perfect.
Academically I am quite unsatisfied here and I am looking for something more challenging/stimulating. This isn't to bash where I am, my point is just that I don't know if it's the right environment for me. I have a 3.98/4.0 GPA in high school, 33 on ACT 1500 on the new SAT. APs all 4s and 5s. 4.0 college GPA. I plan on studying electrical engineering/computer science.
School of Mines seems to be a good destination but I am going to stick it out at least through the end of the year here to see how things go. I don't know if the training philosophy here is quite right as I had my best summer of training thus far (averaged ~70 mpw for 6 weeks) then got to school, had my training volume lowered significantly and bombed the cross country season. I think I need to run consistently higher mileage than what I have done in the past.
The question really is: what kind of interest would I get from a place like school of mines, Adams etc? Does anyone with knowledge of these schools think they'd be a fit? Any other suggestions of D2s or even other D1s that might be a better fit?