Marcela Rodrigues

My Admission Consultant, Marcela Pipitone, has been incredible and I would recommend her to anyone applying to business school. When I began the preparation process I was determined to apply to a top 10 business school, preferably top 5. Among others, I was admitted to Chicago Booth and INSEAD. I am confident that without Marcela this would have not been possible.

What first stood out to me during our initial call, was how friendly she was. In comparison to other admission consultants that I had interviewed she truly seemed interested in understanding my whole story instead of just boiling down to the numbers.

Marcela has proved to be a great support throughout the whole process. When I began to draft my essays for Round1 I realized that my story would need some extra polishing to really shine. I shared this with Marcela and we devised a plan in which I would apply to several schools in Round 1 and the rest in Round 2. Marcela was extremely supportive in the moments where the whole process would be just overwhelming.

She is also extremely dedicated and professional. Her turnaround time for my essays and other application document revisions was very consistent (72 hours but most times less). Her comments were always sharp and made me notably improve my essays. I in fact shared several of my essays (first and final version) with different family members and friends to get a third opinion on how useful hiring a consultant could be. Everyone was impressed by the improvement. All agreed that I could not have achieved it alone, no matter how many hours I would have put into it.

I certainly recommend Marcela to anyone who is thinking to apply to business school.

My brother-in-law advised me to reach out to Admissionado consultants and use the free consultation call to reconfirm my application strategy.

During the call with Marcela, I was given very realistic expectations regarding the chance to get accepted to certain schools taking into account my candidate profile and stats, including the age of 30+ that is way above the average age of applicants. In addition, Marcela was happy to give me a high level review of my ready-to-submit essays.

As a result of the call, I reconsidered my approach and decided to focus and snipershot; apply to only one school that was my #1 choice, INSEAD.

Admissionado was also very flexible with creating a customized package of services for me.

I really enjoyed personal involvement of my consultant, the process and the speed with which we proceeded through INSEAD “beast” application (3 motivation and 4 job essays). I was very happy that the consultants did not stick to a formal 72-hours turn around and came back with recommendations whenever it was possible. I thank the rest of Admissionado team, who helped Marcela to review my application and essays to have a 360-review of my story.

If you’re now in a similar situation looking for a consultant to help shape up your MBA application, my advice is to fill out their really creative questionnaire and do the one hour consultation. I am very certain that even one hour talk with the consultants will make a substantial impact on how you will approach your application. However, if you continue your engagement with Admissionado, I guarantee that the entire team will be there for you to bring all your best and show in the most beneficial way in the application.

On a separate note, I would like to thank Claudia for her patience while waiting for my long-promised review!

It is less than two months before I start my MBA with INSEAD in Fontainebleau!

With the help of Marcela and her team, I applied and got in Yale, UCLA, Duke and Darden (full ride) with 100% success rate.

I turned to Admissionado after 2 dings and 1 WL in round one. Marcela cheered me up with her positive energy and quickly analyzed what I did wrong in round one. She tried to listen to my stories and really personalized my applications. The strategy worked out apparently!

I would highly her! Keep up the good work 🙂

Marcela helped me applying to 4 full time MBAs in top-10 schools… In about 2 months! I’m 32 years old, well above the average; my GMAT was 720 and my GPA 3.3. Marcela’s support throughout the process was consistent and helpful; just what I needed given the time constraint. She made me work harder than I had expected, asking the proper questions in order to better develop my essays and my CV. She always kept pushy and committed to the answer time. In the end I managed to build 4 cohesive and competitive applications that made the best out of my traits and experiences. I got called to interview by 2 out of 4 schools and got waitlisted in another one prior to interview. In the end I got admitted in Booth!! I would definitely recommend Marcela as a great advisor.