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As college counselors who happen to be a mother and daughter, Judy Muir and Katrin Lau have unique perspective on the admission process. Finding Your U is the synthesis of their thirty years of work in this field, hundreds of college campus visits, and innumerable conversations with college deans and reps. Not only do they understand the nuances of what has become an increasingly complex process, but they also know that when students and parents can communicate with the correct information, the path to college application can be a time of positive growth in both the student's self-awareness and the family's relationships. In a digital world, the application process is rapidly changing. Finding Your U combines the most relevant traditional practices and information with the most up-to-date aspects of college admission. It provides college applicants with the information, practices and procedures they would receive in a private counseling session and includes the latest understanding of teen brain development. A succinct and accessible format provides a more manageable overview than the current encyclopedic college-counseling guides and will be a useful handbook for domestic and international parents and students who are approaching American higher education with confusion or angst.

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Judith Widener Muir has worked with families and independent schools around the world for over thirty years. Trained at the Gesell Institute of Child Development at Yale, she began her career as an Educational Diagnostician and Reading Specialist, served as an administrator, and designed curriculum for the Department of Education in Washington before serving for twelve years as the Associate Director of College Counseling at The Kinkaid School in Houston, where she has also directed the January Interim Term for the past twenty-seven years. A graduate of The College of Wooster, she holds a Master's Degree from the University of Houston and a graduate degree from Harvard University in Mind, Brain and Education. A Teaching Fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, she commutes each week from Houston to help teach a class in Educational Neuroscience. She sits on the National Editorial Advisory Group for The Fiske Guide to Colleges and is a member of NACAC, TACAC, and a Professional Member of IECA. In her positions as College Counselor and Director of College Counseling at independent day schools, Katrin Muir Lau has advised multiple international families, helping students navigate a wide variety of procedures for applications to England, Scotland, Canada, Germany, Spain, Norway, Singapore, Japan and Australia. She also coordinates the efforts of top athletic recruits and their parents and coaches to navigate NCAA eligibility requirements. A graduate of Southern Methodist University, Lau holds a Master's Degree from The University of Texas at Austin and a Graduate Certificate in the American Decorative Arts Program at Sotheby's, New York City. Additionally, she holds Certificates for further study of College Admission through the Harvard Summer Institute, The College Board, IECA Summer Training Program, and the University of California. She sits on the National Editorial Advisory Group for The Fiske Guide to Colleges and is a member of NACAC, TACAC, and a Professional Member of IECA.

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