<p>The bookstore offers new students the opportunity to reserve their textbooks and have them boxed up for them. Is it easy to get required textbooks without reserving them- do they usually have enough of them? What are your recommendations? (This is due Aug 1 so we need to make a decision very soon). Thanks for any input.</p>
<p>We did it last year; made it easy for freshman…depending on where your son /daughter’s dorm is, not a bad idea to have it boxed up in advance…no idea if they have enough…it just saves time during the busy orientation week…there were actually books missing from the order because certain professors forgot to put order in on time…just a heads up…</p>
<p>This year, we are trying to get ISBN #'s and then order online to save some $$…</p>
<p>You’ll overpay at the bookstore for sure. It’s quick and easy in terms of letting someone else do your textbook search but in the long run, you’ll save a lot more money in buying books online. It was nice to pay for this service as a freshman but I’ve never done it since and I never will. If I had a brother who was entering college, I would make sure that he buys the books himself than to buy it from the bookstore.
The only exception is that there are some books/lab materials that are only available at the bookstore. In that case, you don’t have a choice.</p>
<p>How can an incoming freshman find out what books are needed? They don’t get their class schedules until they arrive on campus.</p>
<p>Is there somewhere online where professors list the books required for their classes once the class schedules are assigned? Where do you get the ISBN #'s to order books online?</p>
<p>Yea, I recieved my schedule and I know which classes I’m taking… Can I find out now what books I need to that I can figure out how much it will all cost? I don’t really like how the schools reservation system is set up.</p>
<p><a href=“https://bookweb.syr.edu/ePOS?form=store1/content/textsort_syr/text_login.html&store=1[/url]”>https://bookweb.syr.edu/ePOS?form=store1/content/textsort_syr/text_login.html&store=1</a></p>
<p>This is from going online to the bookstore and selecting returning students…worked for me freshman year, but I came in with credits so that may be why it let me. You can get the titles and authors here and use Amazon to get ISBNs…</p>
<p>I recommend half.com and also the SU textbook exchange on facebook…both are very cheap compared to the bookstore. If this doesn’t work for you, don’t worry–very very few professors would expect students to have their books the first day in class…some of the reading-heavy classes (ETS., MAX, or PSC) may require you to get them in the first week, but the library will also have the books, so it should never be an issue.</p>
<p>I went to this thing at the Lubin house yesterday and the students who go to SU said not to do it. They said wait to buy books til after class because sometimes the bookstore will charge you for and package books not required by the professor and you wouldn’t know until you went to class. And also that the bookstore off campus has a 50% buyback guarentee.</p>