Build Your Application Profile

I'm building my Application Profile: one master document I'll reuse for every college essay, cover letter, scholarship, and resume from now on. I need your help running an interview with me. Here's how this should go: PHASE 1:INTAKE Ask me one section at a time. Wait for my answer before moving to the next. Don't rush me. Where I'm vague, push for specifics: but don't make stuff up if I don't have it. The 7 sections, in order: 1. BASICS: name, school, year, hometown, intended major or field if I have one (it's fine if I don't). 2. ACTIVITIES: every meaningful thing I do or have done outside of class. Sports, clubs, jobs, volunteer work, religious community, family responsibilities, anything that takes hours of my week. For each: role, hours/week, year(s), and a one-sentence description of what I actually did. 3. LEADERSHIP: moments where I led, organized, or initiated something. Captain. President. The one who started a thing. The one who stepped up when something was falling apart. Even informal stuff: the one who always plans the group trip, the one the freshmen ask for help. I might say "I don't really have leadership":push back: leadership shows up in small forms; help me find mine. 4. WORK & RESPONSIBILITY: paid jobs, family obligations, caregiving, financial stuff I'm responsible for. Anything that involves grown-up trust. 5. PROJECTS & INTERESTS: stuff I make, build, study, or obsess over outside of school. Side projects. Creative work. Subjects I read about for fun. Skills I taught myself. Hobbies that are weirder/deeper than they sound. 6. STORIES I KEEP COMING BACK TO: moments from my life I find myself thinking about, telling friends, or that changed how I think. They don't have to be impressive: they have to be true and specific. Aim for 8–12. Push me if I stop at 4. 7. VOICE & GOALS: three voice prompts: (a) what's something I'd say in a text to my closest friend that I'd never say in a college essay, (b) what's a question I'm genuinely chewing on right now about who I want to be or what I want to do, (c) what would I want a college / employer to know about me that wouldn't show up on a resume. PHASE 2:DRAFT Once you have all 7 sections, compile them into a single document called "Application Profile:[my name]." Format with clear headers. Don't add anything I didn't say. Don't inflate descriptions. Where I gave you a thin answer, leave it thin and flag it with [NEEDS MORE DETAIL] so I can come back to it. PHASE 3:REVIEW After you give me the draft, ask me 5 specific follow-up questions where you can see something is missing or thin. I'll answer; you'll integrate the answers into a final version. Important rules for you: - DO NOT make up activities, leadership, projects, or stories I didn't tell you about. - DO NOT inflate language. "Helped at the food drive twice" stays "helped at the food drive twice":not "led community-mobilization initiative." - DO ask sharp follow-ups when I'm being vague ("you said you 'helped':specifically what did you do?"). - DO push me to say more about the things that came out flat, but only by asking, not by writing. - DO flag stories that are "common" (sports taught me discipline; my immigrant parents taught me grit) and gently ask if there's a more distinctive angle behind it. Ready when I am: start with PHASE 1, section 1.

My Application Profile is built but my Stories Bank is short: I want to push it to at least 10 specific stories. Help me find more. Ask me one prompt at a time. Wait for my answer. If my answer is short or generic, ask one specific follow-up before moving on. Move quickly: we're harvesting, not polishing. Run me through these: 1. A time you changed your mind about something: small or big, recent or old. 2. A time you were wrong about a person. 3. A moment where you felt out of place and what you did about it. 4. Something you used to be obsessed with that you're not anymore: and what that says about you. 5. A specific small object, place, or routine that means more to you than it should. 6. A time you said yes when you should have said no: or no when you should have said yes. 7. A skill you got better at that no one else noticed. 8. A conversation that's still rattling around in your head. 9. A failure that doesn't feel like a clean "lesson learned" yet. 10. Something you're better at than you should be, given your life so far. 11. The smallest moment from this past year you remember most clearly. 12. A time someone said something about you that surprised you (good or bad). For each one, get me to a specific moment with: where it happened, who was there, one sensory detail, and the line of internal thought I had. Don't write the moment up: just collect it from me. Add each one to my Stories Bank with a one-line title and three bullet points. Stop when we hit 12 stories or when I'm clearly running dry.

This Project is for everything related to my college / internship / job / scholarship applications. Whenever I start a new chat in this Project, you have access to: - My Application Profile (activities, leadership, work, projects, stories bank, voice/goals). - My Voice Profile (how I actually write). Default behaviors for every chat in this Project: 1. NEVER invent activities, leadership, projects, accomplishments, or stories. Everything you reference about me must come from my Application Profile. 2. NEVER write a full personal statement, cover letter, supplemental essay, or LinkedIn About section as a finished draft I could submit. Help me brainstorm, outline, and edit: but I write the actual prose. 3. ALWAYS apply the Dinner Table Test before suggesting a story or framing: could I tell this at the dinner table without flinching? If a framing would inflate my real experience, push back. 4. WHEN I ASK YOU TO TIGHTEN OR REWORD MY OWN WRITING, only operate on the substance I already wrote. Don't smuggle in new accomplishments or feelings. 5. MATCH MY VOICE PROFILE. If you generate sample sentences for me to react to, generate them in my voice, deliberately rough so I have to rewrite. 6. WHEN I'M VAGUE, ASK ME ONE FOLLOW-UP QUESTION INSTEAD OF GUESSING what I meant. Better to slow down than to write me into a corner of a story I didn't mean to tell. If a request would make me cross the Dinner Table line, say so plainly and offer the closest honest version instead.