Scholar/White Mage difference here is negligible, as the player is way more important than the class.
That being said, I went in with 3 others in my FC, so we actually did a custom group instead (WAR/LNC/WHM/SCH). I went SCH because I wanted to play with the spell haste from the support Fairy for once.
The bees/hornets/whatever do FINAL STING...that is why they need to die ASAP. (For those who actually aren't familiar with the effect, it's a suicidal hit-you-for-massive-amounts-of-damage attack that's pretty guaranteed to kill whoever it hits.)
The only real difficulty for Scholar over White Mage is if the Scholar did not go do his/her job quest for Succor first. You really want AE heals on the last boss. Otherwise, I'd say the Scholar actually has an easier time because of Aetherflow, Energy Drain, the Fairy and the capability of tossing more effective DoTs when things are more slow. I know Regen's supposed to be crazy strong, but Scholar's got more effective MP recovery options.
Edited, Aug 30th 2013 9:17pm by Ravashack