<p>Two questions. Does anyone have info on the Big/Little Sisters program for incoming freshman women? Anyone’s DD participate? Time commitment?</p>
<p>Second question-DD has found the required texts for her classes but cant seem to find the ISBN #'s listed anywhere. Any hints on where this is found? We would like to order books from intranet.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>My understanding is that many schools leave off the ISBN numbers on purpose to make it a little harder to do exactly what you are saying, although many people manage to order from other sources just fine anyway. I don’t know if it is part of Tulane’s agreement with B&N, who runs the bookstore, or just because they make money on the books, or some of both. My S’s school also has B&N running it, I’ll check and see if they do ISBN numbers sometime. In the meantime, you should be able to track down the right book most of the time from the title and author, although I realize sometimes being sure you have the right edition is a problem. Most students say 95% of the time it doesn’t matter if you are one edition behind. I think where it matters most, or at least matters a lot, is translations of foreign novels.</p>
<p>I am going to be a sophomore next year, and I participated in the Big Sis/Little Sis program last year. Unfortunately, my big sister turned out to be a big flop. We met one time at the pinning ceremony, which is the only real time commitment (it lasted about 20-30 minutes and was the night before classes started I think?) She seemed very uninterested and didn’t try to make conversation. I tried to set up another time to have coffee with her, but again she didn’t seem to want to, so I let it go. I’m not sure why someone would sign up for the program and not want to do it, but I guess some people don’t think about what they are really signing up for maybe.</p>
<p>The good news is that I know a lot of people who had great experiences with their Big Sisters, and they ended up being really good friends. The time commitment is only however much you make of it, so if you want to hang out a lot, you can do that, but no one will force you to.</p>
<p>This year I will be participating again as a Big Sister, and hopefully I’ll do a better job than my big sis did haha!</p>
<p>Some of the online booksellers for colleges will have a picture posted of the textbook. That is often helpful (though it can be wrong, too), and you can get the edition number off the picture. soemtimes with the name and author, you can look around on the online sites and find the ISBN, which then makes it easier to search.</p>
<p>At the college where I teach, we sometimes bundle books (we might include a dictionary or some other supplementary material). The bundles have their own ISBN number, so this can be confusing as well.</p>
<p>Just got off the Tulane bookstore website and the ISBNs are listed!! They are the 13 digit variety. They weren’t there a few days ago. Suggest jotting them down now before they disappear.</p>
<p>Can someone please tell me how a student finds the list of books required for each class? My daughter is registered but she hasn’t clue how to do this. Also, after one finds out what the required books are, does one then go to the bookstore site to locate the ISBN #s?</p>
<p>She should first sign in to her Gibson Online account. She’ll see, on the left hand side, under “Tulane Resources” a link to “Uptown Bookstore”. When the new window opens, she should scroll down to “Buy Your Textbooks On-line Today!” (left hand side). She can then enter each of her classes, specifying class number and section. As she enters each course, they will appear in “Step Two: Review Your Course”. When she has entered all the courses (or any of them), she can click on “View Textbook List”. This will display the books, bookstore prices, and ISBNs. She can decide whether to purchase at this site or go looking elsewhere. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>That worked perfectly. Thanks so much capandgown!</p>
<p>Quick question while I’m reading this: after I put in all my information for my textbooks, I was given options for Required textbooks and Recommended textbooks. Is it worth it to get the recommended textbooks? I’m getting reccomendations for them in Calculus and Chemistry.</p>
<p>My guess is these are workbooks with extra problems? if so, I guess it depends on how confident you feel in these subjects.</p>