Siena College

Date: Nov 11 2008
Major: Accounting (This Major's Salary over time)
While most of the comments posted describing the Siena student population are true, that was not something I was bothered by at this school. I was not your typical student, but I got along with the others fine. The profs are fair. Yes some of the classes were hard, but this is information you are expected to KNOW outside of school. In the "real world" you cannot simply put studying for a test or preparing a project off to the last minute. Similarly you should know what you are talking about and not depend on a book to get answers.

What I did not like about Siena was the admissions dept. As others have posted the admissions paints the school as one that is academically challenging. In my opinion they should be, but the real challange is completeing their requirments for a degree. There are far too many gen ed classes required as prereq's to other classes. If you are a transfer student as I was, this will screw you over. I had to get special permission every semester to take classes that they required me to take because I wasn't taking them in the "correct order." While this is necessary for sequential classes like ACCT 200, 300, 400, 450 etc., it should not be required that you take computer classes before you take a business class. Furthermore because they think they are so challanging they will try to/force you to not take many classes in a semester (usally no more than 4, when 5 would bve neccessary to graduate in 4 yrs). They look down on you if you came from a community college and say normally students who come from community colleges do not do well here. I had a 4.0 GPA comming out of my community college, and had a 3.9 graduating from Siena. Maybe I didn't do as well, but I did not do horribly as they will make you think.

The school is fine, the system/administration sucks!