Our Story
Built by former admissions officers and longtime educators.
JC Education started inside admissions offices. The way we work today still reflects what we learned reading files for some of the country's most selective schools.
How it started
From the reader's chair to the family's side.
Our founders met working inside admissions offices and classrooms across some of the country's most selective schools. Year after year they watched bright students miss the right fit — not because they weren't capable, but because no one was helping the family see the bigger picture: how testing, course selection, summer programs, and essays fit together across four or five years.
JC Education started as a way to bring that insider's view to families who deserved it. We work with a small cohort of students each cycle, by design. Each family gets the calendar, the senior reader, and the late-night essay review they'd hope to find but rarely do at larger firms.
Today we work with families across three continents — first-generation applicants, multinational families relocating to the US, middle schoolers preparing for boarding, and everything in between. The thread that connects them is the one that started the firm: the belief that the right plan, made early, changes everything.
Milestones
A short timeline.
Founding
Two former admissions officers begin advising a handful of families in Southern California, by referral only.
Boston office
A second base opens to serve East Coast boarding-school families and reach the campuses that shape American education.
International practice
The firm formalizes a dedicated international pathway after years of working with families relocating from East Asia and beyond.
Today
A senior-only team of advisors, still capped at a small number of new families per cycle.
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