This guide is clearly written and straightforward. It's intended to be used by the students, students' parents and other interested parties who aspire to study in overseas, particularly in the US. People planning to study in the US would like to know much information before they could make a decision. If a student is planning to attend a University in the US, his success will depend on many factors. Most of these essential factors are clearly highlighted herein.

The uniqueness of this guide is that it is written based on experiential approach, while the available US guides are based on the US market practices. The available guides in the market for use by foreign students prior to their coming to the US are limited in their coverage of foreign student's actual life issues in the US. This guide further demystifies US based organizations' published guides relevance on their use by foreign students.

This guide will help students, parents, and other interested parties to get some ideas about the U.S educational system, problems students face, opportunities, and how to connect with other foreign bound students studying in the US. It also makes someone an informed US educational consumer prior to landing in the US. For example, a student trying to raise funds in Kenya for the U.S Universities could use this guide to find specific information to justify school costs, apartment costs, etc. and provide sense of financial responsibilities. Many aspirants are ignorant about financial responsibilities and assume it will be easy to fund US academic environment.

Making this guide user friendly to foreign students, and successful in overreaching its goal of satisfying most of the questions many students ask while preparing for the U.S., it provides some answers to some of the frequently asked questions and others, such as:

There are many universities in the U.S and to find the general requirements, you need to check with the university you would like to attend, programs offered, etc. And looking for this information is like " looking for a needle in a hay stack." But this guide therefore does abridge this gap and provides information to answer such specific questions.

It is hoped that this Guide will be useful to those students and others who aspire to study in the US, and that this guide will be updated periodically by the author.