Son just admitted to VBS - he is thrilled as it was a stretch. Wondering about the general workload/difficulty of the VBS curriculum in general, and compared with the larger regional business programs at Delaware, Pitt, Va Tech, JMU etc.
Workload and difficulty depends entirely on your professor, so it depends on how well you schedule, which depends on how early your registration time is, which is based on how many credits you have completed. Get credited for all of your AP courses and try to take 18-19 credits first semester so you get an earlier registration time and can pick the easier profs.
But on average, I’d say it is not too difficult (slightly more difficult than Rutgers, but much easier than Stern or Wharton) unless you’re an Accounting major.
Why is it harder if you’re an accounting get major?
Can you choose your own classes as a VSB freshman, from what I have seen, basically everyone is locked into a very similar schedule as a VSB freshman, except for those who have a 4 or 5 on relevant AP classes and are able to bypass certain classes.
I’m in engineering, but I have many friends in business and the workload seemed very easy for freshman year, but sophomores must take a 6 credit class called FMR which is notoriously difficult (I have a 3.8 GPA friend who was thrilled to get a C- in FMR). Just make sure your son doesn’t go into sophomore year with the mindset that he can simply coast through, and he’ll be fine