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Pamela was an invaluable resource during my application process. Her honest feedback and assessment with my essays and applications undoubtedly enabled me to put my best foot forward. Thanks to Pamela's help and review I was able to get into my top school! I am extremely glad I decided to work with her, and would absolutely recommend Pamela to anyone looking to apply to a graduate business degree program.

I was a little lost (and late) starting my applications, but Pamela really helped me focus my application on my strengths. Pamela’s no-nonsense approach is just what I needed. She let me know exactly where I needed to improve and what steps I needed to take- including re-taking the GRE. Pamela was also incredibly helpful navigating the waitlist and knew the best way to succeed. I would not have been accepted at Tuck without her help! Highly recommend.

Coming from a more nontraditional background, I was skeptical of admissions consultants and whether they’d be able to help me showcase my experiences and articulate my unique social impact career vision. I thought I’d be lucky to get into a school or two. Needless to say, Pamela was the perfect person to work with during this crazy competitive admissions cycle — I ended up getting into multiple top 15 schools with massive scholarships!! After deliberating between my top choices – Berkeley Haas and Yale SOM – I plan to attend Yale SOM in the fall. You should partner with Pamela for your MBA apps because she’s: 1) A GREAT listener: Obviously this is fantastic for when you’re developing a narrative, but Pamela pays attention to the smallest of details in your profile and helps you tie them into your essays to stand out. She encouraged me to incorporate unique parts of my background I had dismissed (e.g. becoming a dancer in college). On my admit calls, schools specifically noted that they appreciated that I chose to write about these things in my essays. 2) Highly efficient and thorough: Pamela provides quick turnarounds but does NOT skimp on quality. Whether it’s reviewing your first draft or your sixth draft, she provides invaluable feedback and is truly invested in taking your work to the next level. 3) Genuinely direct: Pamela wants you to shine. This means she will not hesitate to tell you if something is weaker and needs work — which I love! Let’s be real, none of us have time to beat around the bush when we’re working on tons of essay drafts. You need someone to give you clarity. 4) A true supporter: Pamela 100% believes in your candidacy and is invested in you. She has gone above and beyond for me throughout the process and gave me the confidence to apply for schools that I thought were reaches. Right now, as I deliberate between offers, she’s giving me great advice and guidance, even though her work is technically done. When I reflect on the admissions process, I know that the months I dedicated to narrative development would not have gone as smoothly without involving Pamela. She encouraged me to be myself and allowed me to highlight and sharpen unique aspects of my candidacy. Ultimately, that’s what put me over the top in this extremely competitive admissions cycle. 11/10, would highly recommend 🙂

When I started working with Pamela, I had no idea what I wanted to do with an MBA and she was instrumental in getting me focused on specific target areas that made sense for me. I got into my top choice - NYU - and I would not have been able to do that without Pamela's expertise and extreme attention to detail.

Let me begin by saying that when I kicked off my MBA applications journey, I was double-minded on whether I needed a consultant. I got referred to Pamela through a friend and decided to work with her. Fast forward 4 months later and an acceptance letter from my top pick (Columbia Business School), I can confidently say that this would not have been possible without Pamela’s help and support. The best way to describe her style is genuine. Throughout the application process, she provided incredibly candid feedback on everything from my content to communication style. When she says something is “not good”, it’s because she has her clients’ best interests in mind — and I truly appreciated that. I also very much appreciated that she was always open to getting on the phone with me if I needed further clarification on comments or wanted to brainstorm some ideas. She is super-efficient and provides quick turnarounds. All in all, now that I am at the end of the tunnel, I can say with the benefit of hindsight that I understand the value an MBA consultant can provide. That being said, I am sure that “value” will only be unlocked if you pick the right consultant, and I am very happy that I did exactly that.

Pamela's thoughtful and personal approach helped me sculpt my application into an acceptance at my top MBA choice - Tuck! Her no-nonsense approach kept me on track and laser-focused on reaching my goals. Pamela is extremely detail oriented, providing invaluable feedback on all aspects of the MBA application process. She helped me determine which schools I should apply to, how to best present myself, and prepared me for interviews. Pamela was my key to success during this terribly difficult application season. I could not have done it without her!

Last year I was somebody with an average GMAT score and fairly limited work experience but a deep desire and intense need to go to business school, I was skeptical about making it to the top U.S. business schools. Today, It gives me immense pleasure to write about Pamela because she enabled me to secure admission along with a fellowship to Cornell Johnson and four waitlists from top B schools such as Duke, Tuck, Darden, and UCLA. She has emerged as much more than an MBA consultant to me, I have come to see her as a mentor and a guiding force. I started working with Pamela in August of last year. I was already working with a consultant at the time but was extremely unhappy with the output. I remember that in my first call itself, Pamela gave me insights that no one, including my current consultant and the many other consultants and admission coaches I had consulted with at the time, had done. She even agreed to do a trial run for me and agreed to edit an essay as a sample based on which I could decide if I wanted to do more than 1 school with her. I ended up applying to 10 SCHOOLS with her – that in itself should speak to her brilliance. Based on a few conversations with her, she was able to guide me and extract such content out of me that truly reflected my true story for the Adcoms. I was amazed by her candor, her unparalleled knowledge about schools, and most importantly her willingness to go that extra mile for an aspirant which is why I, you and every MBA aspirant need the ‘Jaffe Advantage’. I’m tabulating below some of the points that make her the perfect MBA consultant to help anyone secure an admit from their dream schools: 1. Knowledge and Rare Insights About Various Schools: School selection itself can be a daunting process but Pamela’s knowledge as an AIGAC consultant, about schools acquired from her active network and presence as an MBA consultant made the process much more efficient for me, ensuring that I made well-informed decisions. In addition to my research, her inputs on the employment avenues, extracurriculars, methods of teaching, etc. for each school make her a seasoned consultant. This helped me not just effectively answer the ‘Why a specific school’ question for my essays and interviews but it truly allowed me to identify which schools I wanted to apply to based on a comprehensive understanding of the school rather than just some superficial research, because of which today I’m going to a school, whose community I truly want to be a part of. 2.Focus on Building an Engaging Narrative: While all applicants have their own journey that they might talk about in their essays, the clarity and the finesse required to do that is rare. Pamela’s focus on enabling applicants to develop a coherent story and answer all the Whys and Hows along the way gave my essays a unique essence to convey who I’m as a person and really show the adcoms my motivations, my path, and my goals. As an immigrant, I sometimes struggled with putting across my thoughts in an efficient manner. Beyond the application, Pamela has taught me the valuable skills of putting them across in a succinct yet powerful manner. 3. Structured Approach and Strict Turnaround Timelines: Given the amount of writing involved in applications, it’s essential to have a stringent structure for each essay. Pamela’s approach to effectively answer the questions ensured that I did not get diverted and rather used every last word/character from the assigned limit, judiciously. Another thing I have really come to admire is how throughout the course of my applications, she abided by the 2-day turnaround timeline (In fact on most occasions she would get her edits over to me before the 2-day timeline). This really ensured that all my applications were submitted well before the deadlines while accommodating any additional edits that I required. 4. Honest Feedback and Focussed Problem Solving: Pamela’s feedback is the main factor that helped me hone my story and put across my best foot forward. She questioned and dug through multiple times whenever she felt I wasn’t able to convey something in my writing and had no qualms editing the same thing multiple times till every last word did justice to my candidacy. She gave me solutions and encouraged me to myself address every issue that could have been detrimental to my applications, using a structured approach that transformed my supposed weaknesses to my strengths. Today, I’m done with my applications, but I’m so inspired by Pamela and how she approaches different problems, that I find myself sometimes using her methodology to solve some of my problems and convey my message – I call it the ‘WWPJD’ (What would Pamela Jaffe do) During the course of my application, before I even got my results, I recommended her to a friend who also worked with her and I recommend her to anyone who wishes to prepare an authentic application. I can whole-heartedly vouch for her not merely as a consultant but as a mentor who has allowed me to attain a goal I conceived five years ago.

The first thing that stuck out to me when I began working with Pamela was her direct approach. She was not afraid to tell me what was realistic based on my profile and wasn’t afraid to be blunt about it. That isn’t to say she is not aware of how to present that information to clients as she never said anything that could be remotely construed as offensive. She is merely looking to best position her clients to best succeed and she is not interested in just taking clients’ money and stringing them along through applications that do not fit their profile. Her insight into the application process and understanding of how to best frame my candidacy was invaluable as I had no one else in my immediate network I could lean on for similar insight. Additionally, my candidacy was a bit unorthodox and Pamela was incredibly accommodating of my unique situation and helped me to succeed in gaining admission into my schools of choice. Bottom line – she knows what she is talking about and will be very honest in regard to how she thinks you can reach your goals but never at the expense of understanding that at the end of the day it’s about the candidate and the applications are theirs. 10/10 would recommend her and can’t thank her enough for her support over the entire process.

Pamela Jaffe was a phenomenal consultant and support throughout my MBA application process. From the initial consultation, she understood my background and connected with me on my challenges in a way few other consultants ever had! She developed a personalized strategy for me that inspired confidence in myself. She also provided valuable assistance in school selection, helping me focus my search and narrowing it down to 6 programs. She has an established process and her own structured frameworks that did an amazing job at distilling all my past experiences. She helped me take those results and formulate my personal story that was relevant and made sense for MBA application essays and interviews. Pamela understands what the admissions committees look for and her advice was always spot on! She was always accessible and her communication is prompt. What stood out to me about Pamela: – True, customized approach that was suitable for my application strategy – How well she understands Adcom members on the other side of the table – How invested she is in her clients. This level of care is reflected in her feedback and interactions: quality and detail-oriented from essay reviews to mock interviews – Her expertise not only on the major US programs but also on the European programs I was considering as well Pamela is a consummate professional and her assistance was truly an end-to-end experience. I bought 6 school packages from her and I received Round 2 acceptances from 5 of them. Best investment I ever made. I am proud IESE Round 2 full-time MBA admit! I would enthusiastically recommend Pamela to anyone.

Pamela was a critical thought partner throughout the application process. Her services were definitely a value add and really helped keep me on track with timing. She shined brainstorming ideas around essays and had in-depth knowledge about the schools I applied to, even helping me mock-interview, leading to admission to both Stanford GSB & HBS. This process is long and arduous and working with Pamela was one of the best decisions I made along the way!