<p>The quality of your ACS teacher has a big impact on the enjoyment of the course. There are boring profs, and hard profs, but the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Mine was a fairly tough grader, but I loved the course.</p>
<p>The girls here can be hard to get at times. That said, nothing is out if you play your cards well.</p>
<p>Lib arts vs. Business:</p>
<p>You will get your work in either. Business students aren’t required to take a language, I didn’t continue my language from HS and I think that it was a good move for me. I love language. Lib Arts students have to continue a language for a year or take a new one for two, if I recall correctly. I consider that extremely difficult.</p>
<p>The school of business puts a lot more emphasis on team projects (Competitive Effectiveness will shock most students - start working on this project EARLY in the course). It’s very tough to have several classes where over half your grade lies on a team project. It’s something that business students get used to quickly. It’s not all bad - business profs are typically very willing to help you review your project components before they’re due - but until you learn this, it’s tough.</p>
<p>There are also some courses that are just tough in general in business. Financial Management & Reporting kicks a lot of business students in the rear.</p>
<p>That said (all of these are in my experience):
[ul]
[<em>]Liberal arts classes, in general, have a higher expected degree of participation. This is highly teacher dependent, but as a generalization…
[</em>]Liberal arts classes can require a lot more preparation as a result. The amount of reading an english major friend of mine does is insane. At points it’s a book a day.
[li]It depends on your major too. The work I’ve seen Computer Science students expected to do in two days is absolutely daunting to me[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>I think the business school at Villanova is fantastic, but it’s a disservice to say that the liberal arts school is a “joke”. Different stokes for different folks - there are challenges in each curriculum. Sometimes, when faced with challenging courses, I think the business students can forget that the introductory business classes (Business Dynamics I & II) were far from extreme trials.</p>
<p>That said, as a VSB student, I must remind you all that it is the best school here. Not to the point where the other schools are massively inferior, but enough to count. Or perhaps that’s just my high amounts of bias creeping in… ;)</p>