<p>Is this recommended? I am guessing it's the most expensive way to go to get textbooks, right? Other than the fact that they ship the texts to you before you even leave for school, are there other advantages?</p>
<p>Also (and forgive me if this is uber-stupid!) but how do you know what textbooks you need? Is there a place onlinie where incoming freshmen can look up the books assigned for their courses? If so, I am guessing it's cheaper to find some used texts online once you know what you have to get.</p>
<p>NOCCA Jr. and anyone else who has experience, would love to hear what you think, when money <em>is</em> an object. :)</p>
<p>Not only money but transport was an object for me - I couldn't afford to have them shipped back to school and could only take what I could carry. So I got them there, which most people do. You go to the NYU library, either online or in person and give your N number and they generate a list of books you need.</p>
<p>I think I'll save myself some money and simply order the textbooks from ebay or amazon. I'm commuting so I'll need to take them back n forth anyway. </p>
<p>but I'm also wondering what the op asked - are the books posted online somewhere? I think someone posted a link on a similar thread.</p>
<p>Jenny, thanks for your response. Can you provide a link (for those of us who don't know our way around yet) where kids can type in their N#s and get a list of textbooks?</p>
<p>Hey NMR!
I just bought the books when I got here. It's not a cheaper option, they just ship them to you earlier. In fact, it might be a disadvantage, since why would you carry books to New York that you're going to need when you get here anyway? For your D, she can't get her Writing the Essay books (Writing the Essay: Art and the World/World Through Art and Mercer Street) cheap because they're updated every year (NYU loves it). However, she could possibly get her Theater Studies/Theatre Production books cheaper from someone else because they always pretty much stay the same from year to year, unless NYU changed it this year. In fact, if she wanted to and if they stayed the same for this year, she could buy them from me for half price. My Theatre Production books are in mint condition (haha) and I bought my Theatre Studies book off someone, but it's in pretty good shape. She can make a judgment once she sees them lol.</p>
<p>Oh yes, one more book she's going to "need": Artistic Citizenship: A Public Voice for the Arts. Ummmm... yeah never even opened it. Just a heads up.</p>
<p>NOCCA, that would be great if she could buy the Theatre Production book from you. (She was not able to get into ITS: the class was already full when she logged on at noon to register. So she is doing ITP first semester.) Her mentor told her that the ITP and ITS books are expensive -- maybe $100 apiece. Is that right? And if you are in earnest about selling yours (and if the books, indeed, don't change), I will tell my D (who is a friend of yours on facebook .... CAP21 2012 group) to contact you. That would be great! (So, should kids not buy that artistic citizenship book?)</p>
<p>The ITP books aren't expensive at all...there's two and collectively they're $40. The ITS book I think runs a little over $100 (I bought it half price from a friend for like $50). But what people did last semester was just switch books with friends, so once she's done with ITP, she could just find a friend that was in ITS and switch with them, at least for the semester, which would be an even cheaper alternative. So yes. If she's staying at Third North or UHall, I'm close...I'm staying at Palladium for the school year. And, of course, I'll see her at studio :-). And I, knowing what I know right now, and knowing my WTE professors (and WTE in general) wouldn't buy the Artistic Citizenship book unless I knew for a fact that there were multiple assignments in it. I, personally, only read one of the essays in the $40 book...on my personal time. I never had to crack it open once for class. Eh.</p>