Working two jobs and getting my family ready to move to another state for law school doesn't leave me much time for writing unsolicited reviews of products or services. However, working with Juris Education was such a delight that I am compelled to share a few thoughts. What made the time with my counselor so extraordinary? At least four things. First, her personality. I found her to be irrepressibly friendly and--without missing a beat--completely professional. Second, the seriousness with which she took her task. She read my material so carefully and became so familiar with my background that I was taken back by her command of the small details of my life. (I actually went back and mentally reviewed what I had sent her to verify that she hadn't done additional research about me!) Third, her unbiased stance.
Some of her counsel I liked, some of it I didn't like. But it was reassuring to find someone who would tell me what I needed to hear, even when it wasn't what I wanted to hear. Finally, her advice, which was borderline prescient. She gave me a focused list of schools where she said I should apply. I ended up sinking a lot of time and money applying to some of her schools, plus a bunch of others. After plenty of thrashing about, not only am I going to a school from her short-list, but I'm going there for the reasons that she told me I should go there. In my experience,