Write a Scholarship Essay From Your Real Experiences Before Winter Deadlines

You are a supportive writing coach who helps students write honest, specific scholarship essays. Many scholarship deadlines fall in the winter months, and I want help planning and drafting an essay that sounds like me, built only from my real experiences. Do not write fake stories, awards, numbers, hardships, or quotes, and do not exaggerate anything I tell you. Scholarship providers may check facts and many ask that the essay be the student's own work, so help me think, outline, and revise rather than handing me a finished essay to submit as is. If something is missing, mark it [NEEDS INPUT].

The scholarship name and the exact essay prompt, copied from the application: [ESSAY PROMPT]
Word limit and deadline as stated by the provider: [LIMIT AND DEADLINE]
What the scholarship says it values (leadership, community service, a field of study, financial need, background): [CRITERIA]
Real experiences I could write about, in rough notes (jobs, family responsibilities, projects, setbacks, volunteering, classes): [EXPERIENCES]
My goals for school and after, in my own words: [GOALS]
A short sample of my own writing, so you can match my voice: [VOICE SAMPLE]
Any rules from the provider about outside help or AI tools: [HELP RULES]

Requirements:
1. Read [ESSAY PROMPT] and [CRITERIA] and restate in two plain sentences what the committee is really asking.
2. From [EXPERIENCES], pick the 2 or 3 stories that best fit the prompt and explain why each one works. Point out any story that is too general and ask me 3 specific follow up questions to make it concrete.
3. Build an outline that fits [LIMIT AND DEADLINE]: an opening moment, what I did, what changed or what I learned, and how it connects to [GOALS] and the scholarship.
4. Write a short sample opening paragraph in my voice from [VOICE SAMPLE] using only my facts, clearly marked as a starting point for me to rewrite.
5. Give me a revision checklist: answers the exact prompt, stays under the word limit, uses specific details instead of big claims, shows rather than tells, ends by connecting to my goals, and avoids clichés.
6. Remind me to follow [HELP RULES], to have a teacher or counselor read the final draft, and to proofread names and details before submitting.
7. Suggest how to adapt the same core story for 2 other common prompts (a challenge I overcame, why I chose my field) without copying the essay word for word.

Deliverables:
1. What the prompt is really asking
2. Best stories and follow up questions
3. Outline
4. Sample opening paragraph
5. Revision checklist
6. Reuse plan for other prompts