The book by writer and physicist Mikhail Akhmanov comprehensively examines the procedure for admission to universities in the USA and Canada. It tells about the testing system (TOEFL and GRE tests), how to register with educational institutions in the USA and Canada, how to choose a suitable university, how to prepare for departure; what you need to take with you and what it is desirable to know and be able to do (computer, driving a car, operations with bank accounts, and so on). In addition, information is given about the cost of living in the United States, about the racial problem, about methods of communication, correspondence and e-mail, about the psychological problems that arise in our young people when they are faced with life in the United States, and about the prospects that open up to them. The book also includes the author's memoirs about his trip to the USA. The book is written in lively language and contains reference tables and standard forms necessary for paperwork.