Application Support

PFAU Writing Support helps students and young professionals applying for additional educational credentials to identify their strengths, develop an application profile, tell meaningful memorable stories about themselves, and ultimately create a personal brand that can be used to help them apply for multiple schools, and also scholarships and grants. We focus on university and college applications, grad school applications, professional school applications (Law, MBA, Medicine), scholarship and grant applications, and even jr. scholar job applications.

Lisa Pfau focuses on helping her clients get into their dream schools of choice by coaching them how to upscale any application gaps or weakness before and during the application process, re-frame potential weaknesses as strengths, connect with potential faculty and colleagues, understand the missions and outlook of the target schools, and most importantly, write memorable and meaningful personal statements that reflect the student’s passion and expertise.

Each new client is taken through an initial consultation process to get to know the client’s goals and credentials in order to develop a client profile and personal statement/essay template. This process helps Lisa and the client to start to create a personal brand that will permeate through all the application materials. Afterwards, Lisa works with clients to develop a solid personal statement/research statement, resume/CV, and supplementary documents through creating templates, suggesting relevant content, and editing the documents for clarity, coherence, and concision. At the end of the process, the client not only has a solid application package for at least one school, but several documents that they can pull from in the future to apply for future education, scholarships, and even professional opportunities. Lisa’s goal, unlike most application services, is to coach the client to build confidence and succeed in their area of interest through relationship and skills building.

So far, Lisa Pfau has a 100% success rate for school applications; has successfully assisted in helping a single student receive over $250,000 in scholarships and grants; and, even coached helped a PhD student land two tenure track offers at two major Canadian universities through her job application development and support process.

Lisa is genuinely invested in your success, and will push your limits and expand your perspective to ensure that you reach your full potential on the page, and in life!

Client Testimonial

“After a positive experience applying to university with Lisa, my mom recommended that I get her help when applying to business schools from high school. Lisa worked on my supplementary applications for business school at UofT, McMaster, Western, and York by helping me to develop essay content, editing my essays, and working through talking points for the video presentations. With her encouragement and practice, I was accepted into all the programs. Now, I just have to choose where I want to go in the Fall.” - Ishal (high school student headed to university)