Mika earned her Bachelor’s degree in economics and psychology from Claremont McKenna College before beginning her legal journey. After earning a 179 on the LSAT, she was offered acceptance to several prestigious law schools, including Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, and the University of Chicago. She ultimately chose to complete her JD at the University of Chicago.
As a tutor, Mika employs the "TEACH" approach, emphasizing trust, empowerment, appreciation, communication, and humor to motivate and engage students. During her sessions, she typically employs the EDIP (explain, demonstrate, imitate, and practice) teaching method, ensuring thorough understanding and skill development by modeling best practices and giving students constant feedback. Her greatest strength is interaction. She believes in a modeling/co-teaching process and pushes students to precisely identify why answers must be wrong. In her experience, a tutor's goal is not just to teach; it’s to train you in the best attack process possible.
In her free time, Mika loves to roller skate, dance, and play board games with friends. She is also a lifelong learner and is particularly interested in classical, medieval, and Victorian-era history.
While at Kenyon College, Ben was a computer science teaching assistant, honing his pedagogical skills and developing a keen understanding of how to effectively guide students. He was the recipient of the George Gund Award for his excellence in an essay examining the American constitutional republic and the John Chesnut Memorial Prize for Political Science, awarded to the student who demonstrated the most excellent work in political science. He also represented his college as a New York Times Athens Democracy Forum delegate.
Passionate about guiding individuals towards academic excellence, Ben believes in the importance of strategizing and personalizing the learning process to suit each student's unique needs and strengths. He particularly excels in tutoring the Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension sections—two key areas of the LSAT that are set to become increasingly challenging. With his knowledge, experience, and dedication, Ben is excited to support Juris students in realizing their full potential and achieving their academic goals.
A fun fact about Ben is that he loves raccoons! He also played college baseball and enjoys Rubik’s Cubes.
I began working with Juris Education during my senior year of college after I completed the LSAT twice. As a senior in college, I was applying for JD programs. My counselor was extremely focused on my application and prompt with his feedback, and was very kind even when the stresses of the application process and school got the best of me during some meetings. I had assistance with every step of the process, overseen by him but also assisted by various others who were experts at different parts of the application such as long essays, group interviews, scenario-based interviews, etc. I applied to 10 schools through Juris, receiving niche feedback for each school. I was offered interviews for 6 schools, and was accepted into U Chicago along with others, obviously in thanks to Juris!
I contacted Juris because it was recommended to me by current JD students. Juris provided me with team-based support. Sarah acted as my matchmaker and ensured that I was matched with the best consultant for my personality and target schools. My primary counselor created a detailed plan and supported me throughout the application process. She provided a flight test and final feedback for my application as well as prepared me for the mock interviews. In the end, I was very happy with my results!
My counselor was understanding, friendly, and detail-oriented. She relieved a lot of my stress by ensuring that I was organized by putting together a roadmap with deadlines. During our weekly check-ins, she consistently provided constructive feedback and provided insights on how I could best position myself in my applications. She took the time to truly understand my story and the underlying themes in my life. She was dependable and responsive throughout the entire process. With no reservations at all, I recommend working with her and I cannot imagine going through this process without Juris! She gave me the confidence boost that I needed to apply to law school. She is dedicated to ensuring her clients are submitting their best work and anyone would be happy to have her as a consultant!
I am so glad I decided to work with the Juris Education team for law school admissions, they were phenomenal! They made the process so enjoyable and removed all of my stress. As someone who didn't know anyone who had gone through the law school admissions process before, it was helpful to have an admissions consultant walk me through it. And they have such an amazing eye for everything I needed. From helping me with LSAT prep to providing information about writing styles and helping edit essays, to just knowing how to reply to an email from an interviewer - My counselor helped me through every step in the process, with unlimited support and calls as I needed.
One of my favorite parts about working with her was that she was able to listen to my story to help me put together my interests and passions to figure out potential career goals. She listened to every word I said and helped tremendously to help me shape my story, and know what portions to pull out that would be most interesting to the Admissions Committee. Additionally, the entire Juris team was so well structured. I was able to work with an individual twice who was knowledgeable specifically in interview prep, an acting company to help my on-camera presence, to work directly with my recommenders to ensure they had help with the process as well.
Not only was she incredibly professional, but she was a genuinely kind person who really cares about you, your success, and your career progression, and that really shows with the amount of support and guidance she provides. I knew I wanted to work with Juris as they were top of the line and helped start-to-finish with the process, but she was truly the cherry on top who made the usually grueling application a really enjoyable experience. I cannot recommend the Juris team highly enough - they are an absolute joy, create an amazing ecosystem, and are rooting for your success from Day 1.
I began working with Juris Education during my senior year of college after I completed the LSAT twice. As a senior in college, I was applying for JD programs. My counselor was extremely focused on my application and prompt with his feedback, and was very kind even when the stresses of the application process and school got the best of me during some meetings. I had assistance with every step of the process, overseen by him but also assisted by various others who were experts at different parts of the application such as long essays, group interviews, scenario-based interviews, etc. I applied to 10 schools through Juris, receiving niche feedback for each school. I was offered interviews for 6 schools, and was accepted into U Chicago along with others, obviously in thanks to Juris!
I contacted Juris because it was recommended to me by current JD students. Juris provided me with team-based support. Sarah acted as my matchmaker and ensured that I was matched with the best consultant for my personality and target schools. My primary counselor created a detailed plan and supported me throughout the application process. She provided a flight test and final feedback for my application as well as prepared me for the mock interviews. In the end, I was very happy with my results!
My counselor was understanding, friendly, and detail-oriented. She relieved a lot of my stress by ensuring that I was organized by putting together a roadmap with deadlines. During our weekly check-ins, she consistently provided constructive feedback and provided insights on how I could best position myself in my applications. She took the time to truly understand my story and the underlying themes in my life. She was dependable and responsive throughout the entire process. With no reservations at all, I recommend working with her and I cannot imagine going through this process without Juris! She gave me the confidence boost that I needed to apply to law school. She is dedicated to ensuring her clients are submitting their best work and anyone would be happy to have her as a consultant!
I am so glad I decided to work with the Juris Education team for law school admissions, they were phenomenal! They made the process so enjoyable and removed all of my stress. As someone who didn't know anyone who had gone through the law school admissions process before, it was helpful to have an admissions consultant walk me through it. And they have such an amazing eye for everything I needed. From helping me with LSAT prep to providing information about writing styles and helping edit essays, to just knowing how to reply to an email from an interviewer - My counselor helped me through every step in the process, with unlimited support and calls as I needed.
One of my favorite parts about working with her was that she was able to listen to my story to help me put together my interests and passions to figure out potential career goals. She listened to every word I said and helped tremendously to help me shape my story, and know what portions to pull out that would be most interesting to the Admissions Committee. Additionally, the entire Juris team was so well structured. I was able to work with an individual twice who was knowledgeable specifically in interview prep, an acting company to help my on-camera presence, to work directly with my recommenders to ensure they had help with the process as well.
Not only was she incredibly professional, but she was a genuinely kind person who really cares about you, your success, and your career progression, and that really shows with the amount of support and guidance she provides. I knew I wanted to work with Juris as they were top of the line and helped start-to-finish with the process, but she was truly the cherry on top who made the usually grueling application a really enjoyable experience. I cannot recommend the Juris team highly enough - they are an absolute joy, create an amazing ecosystem, and are rooting for your success from Day 1.
According to the LSAC, Illinois residents enrolling in law school achieved a median LSAT score between 150-154 in the 2023-2024 admissions cycle. In contrast, here are the average LSAT scores achieved by matriculants at Chicago’s top law schools:
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