<p>NYU claims books will cost the student $700 per year. Is that an accurate number?</p>
<p>It really depends. If you're an English student and just have to buy a bunch of novels, hardly. If you're pre-med and science (like me), you could spend $400 easily at the beginning of the fall semester. I believe that over the two semesters, I've dropped about $500.</p>
<p>when do you find out what textbooks you need?</p>
<p>I've spent that much in a single semester.</p>
<p>oOStarGazerOo, you can find your booklist here:
<a href="https://www.bookstores.nyu.edu/WKSCRIPTS3/f.wk?BEGIN.ORDER.PROCESS%5B/url%5D">https://www.bookstores.nyu.edu/WKSCRIPTS3/f.wk?BEGIN.ORDER.PROCESS</a></p>
<p>But the books for the Fall aren't actually listed yet.</p>
<p>How much on average do finance majors (at Stern) spend? Do finance majors have to buy financial calculators?</p>
<p>ShadesChildren and DanielJ:</p>
<p>did you buy used or new books???</p>
<p>I always buy used when they are available (from the NYU bookstore).</p>
<p>Get the ISBNs from the books before your courses start, then pull them off of Amazon. You'll cut your bills in half. I had to buy 17 books this semester (for four classes) and only spent $300. Including shipping. The price at my school's bookstore would have been well over $600, even if I had bought them used. </p>
<p>Also, if you wind up dropping the class, you can usually sell that book on-campus for a profit.</p>
<p>I've started a different strategy - buy no books at all, not until I am actually sure I need them. I've had a few professors who have assigned books they never even got to, as well as more than a few who assigned books I never even used.</p>
<p>I always buy my science textbooks new - I can't stand highlighting in a science book. The problem is that NYU puts together these self-published packages (textbook, answer guide, NYU lab manual) which you can't get anywhere else, so you have to buy from them. However, I've heard some people get the bookstore to open one of those packages and just buy the lab manual, then get the textbook and answer guide (which are commerically available) from Amazon or something.</p>
<p>However, for some of my MAP courses and English course, I bought books used.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>How much on average do finance majors (at Stern) spend? Do finance majors have to buy financial calculators?</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Each book is around $100 (new from the bookstore)
But cheaper if you buy used textbooks.. </p>
<p>Financial calculator isn't necessary for the core courses but you will need it for some adv. finance classes (usually in your junior/senior year)</p>