It depends on the class. If it's a math book you're pretty much screwed, you need to buy the exact book the school is demanding you buy. Science and history books you can get away with older editions. If you know who your professors are already, track down their email address and send them a note asking if you can buy an older edition, that's what I did for my history classes and a few of my criminal justice classes and they were fine with it.
Do you get visual examples of the book you're suppose to buy? If so try and go off that from places like Amazon and half.com, hell sometimes you can even rent textbooks from online stores and just send it back at the end of the semester, that's what I did for my Substance Abuse class last year and I saved 70 bucks.
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