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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just remember, and true of the colleges thread generally, anyone who is providing advice for when they were in college is almost certainly wrong about how things work today.  Many colleges don't even have bookstores and those that do sell far more clothes than books.  Schools and professors vary a lot, my daughter had a combination of ebooks and real books, which she purchased during orientation.  (At some schools, Kinkos or the equivlanet may provide readers though I suspect most of that has moved online.)  I did not do a thing and wouldn't even know where to look, she took care of it, and your child should too.  If your child will be a Freshman, then there will be an orientation where books can be purchased, and if your child is not a Freshman, then presumably he or she knows how to access the books.  if all else fails, Amazon will come to the rescue, and Amazon prime will get some there quickly.[/quote]
Helpful and thanks. 
So much is school specific. Orientations that happen earlier in the summer are not book buying times. Big state U’s are different from LACs. Lab manuals and text books can require different gormits, etc. There’s never one answer. If you kids college has a parent FB page, that can help a kid who is offline for summer work.[/quote]

this is why i said wait until the first class above. professor will review class syllabus and you will know exactly what to get, what not to get. [/quote]

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