2L and Back Again Forum

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Jesus.

[pittsburghpirates]

Yeah seriously this is depressing...

[evanesco]

My book total came out to approximately $250 — rented most from chegg, bought a few used from Amazon, and had to buy 1 from the school bookstore.

[archipm]

My book total came out to approximately $250 — rented most from chegg, bought a few used from Amazon, and had to buy 1 from the school bookstore.

giving me hope!!!

[davey jones]

still trying to decide whether or not id rather have clean books or 300 more dollars

[Wipfelder]

still trying to decide whether or not id rather have clean books or 300 more dollars

300 probably isn't worth one-one hundredth of a GPA point.............and equals about four hours worth of take home pay in a typical BigLaw job.

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Uhhh yeah who the fuck is buying not used books and why???

[davey jones]

still trying to decide whether or not id rather have clean books or 300 more dollars

300 probably isn't worth one-one hundredth of a GPA point.............and equals about four hours worth of take home pay in a typical BigLaw job.

yes but four hours of biglaw pay 3 years from now isnt going to buy me dinner right now

also not rly convinced that having clean books will impact my gpa

[Wipfelder]

still trying to decide whether or not id rather have clean books or 300 more dollars

300 probably isn't worth one-one hundredth of a GPA point.............and equals about four hours worth of take home pay in a typical BigLaw job.

yes but four hours of biglaw pay 3 years from now isnt going to buy me dinner right now

also not rly convinced that having clean books will impact my gpa

Then you should save the 300.00. 300.00 is worth less than .01 GPA, but more than .00 GPA (In my opinion). You should not spend 300.00 to mitigate no risk or gain no reward.

[ugg]

still trying to decide whether or not id rather have clean books or 300 more dollars

300 probably isn't worth one-one hundredth of a GPA point.............and equals about four hours worth of take home pay in a typical BigLaw job.

yes but four hours of biglaw pay 3 years from now isnt going to buy me dinner right now

also not rly convinced that having clean books will impact my gpa

yeah unless they've made the writing like illegible I don't see how it would

[davey jones]

still trying to decide whether or not id rather have clean books or 300 more dollars

300 probably isn't worth one-one hundredth of a GPA point.............and equals about four hours worth of take home pay in a typical BigLaw job.

yes but four hours of biglaw pay 3 years from now isnt going to buy me dinner right now

also not rly convinced that having clean books will impact my gpa

Then you should save the 300.00. 300.00 is worth less than .01 GPA, but more than .00 GPA (In my opinion). You should not spend 300.00 to mitigate no risk or gain no reward.

what monetary value would you give .01 gpa points, ballpark

[The Abyss]

Uhhh yeah who the fuck is buying not used books and why???

I definitely wouldn't have bought new books at their list price. All my books ended up being new, but I bought "used - like new". My contracts book ended up being $13 including shipping buying this way.

[Wipfelder]

still trying to decide whether or not id rather have clean books or 300 more dollars

300 probably isn't worth one-one hundredth of a GPA point.............and equals about four hours worth of take home pay in a typical BigLaw job.

yes but four hours of biglaw pay 3 years from now isnt going to buy me dinner right now

also not rly convinced that having clean books will impact my gpa

Then you should save the 300.00. 300.00 is worth less than .01 GPA, but more than .00 GPA (In my opinion). You should not spend 300.00 to mitigate no risk or gain no reward.

what monetary value would you give .01 gpa points, ballpark

Maybe 5,000.00 if a student was already above median at a law school that has their median above 3.2.

[LandMermaid]

any1 else buy/rent/price out their books yet? I just finished ordering most but gunna need to get 2 more when I get to school... looking like its gunna be around $640-660

*this is a post to make us hate schools and the dumb textbook industry

I went all used exept one book and it still ran me $725. I hope this isn't like this every semester.

We had one book bundle that isn't even published yet and you HAVE to order from the school bookstore. It was almost $300

Mine with almost all used/renting was just barely south of $600, with no supplements or anything yet. TWO of my professors required completely new casebooks with no previous edition, so those on their own ran up almost $400. V disappointed and also hoping this is a one-time phenomenon.

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[thetravelinglawyer]

My textbook bill is up to $1200 (renting used) and I still have a few more on backorder. HTF did you all end up with sub-$600?? jelly

[Wipfelder]

My textbook bill is up to $1200 (renting used) and I still have a few more on backorder. HTF did you all end up with sub-$600?? jelly

Ouchies. I've heard of people spending over 2k for a semester.

[Nolachicken]

I can't seem to find my book requirements. I guess they will be listed when my classes are posted.

[tedler]

can we lounge this so i don't have to check two sub-fora

[davey jones]

can we lounge this so i don't have to check two sub-fora

tedler im also in pain but its in its rightful place

[Hikikomorist]

The money situation will get so much worse before it maybe gets better, just FYI.

[alora]

using chegg and some random ebook site that hopefully doesn't steal my identity got my textbook prices from $854 to like $200

[Nolachicken]

Where did you all find which books you needed to purchase?

[basedvulpes]

Where did you all find which books you needed to purchase?

Probably would have more luck looking in your school specific thread, probably varies depending on school.

[Willie Beamen]

can we lounge this so i don't have to check two sub-fora

tedler im also in pain but its in its rightful place