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Lock criteria and weights
Publish before reading names.
Made for Administrators
Build a Scholarship Committee Rubric That Survives Bias and Family Politics
Also useful for: Chief of Staff, Counselors, Program Managers, Project Managers
35 min
Intermediate
College
Make a Decision
Need to Compare Options
Score applications on published criteria before anyone mentions whose cousin applied.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Scholarships damage communities when criteria shift mid-read.
Your answers save as you type.
What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Design the scoring sheet
Numbers reduce favor trading.
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Set process and blind review
Recusal isn't optional.
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Define tie-breaks and notifications
Ties happen with small funds.
Make Your Play
Build a Scholarship Committee Rubric That Survives Bias and Family Politics
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Dollar amounts, count of winners, eligibility rules.
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Who scores, who must recuse, deadlines.
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Essay, transcript, references, financial need if used.
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Service, resilience, STEM, first-gen, etc.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
Lock criteria and weights
Publish before reading names.
02
Design the scoring sheet
Numbers reduce favor trading.
03
Set process and blind review
Recusal isn't optional.
04
Define tie-breaks and notifications
Ties happen with small funds.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill the fields with this week’s real details. Incomplete notes beat invented polish.
Run the assembled prompt, answer follow-ups with specifics, then copy the deliverable into your own doc and verify names and numbers.
Advanced instructions
Add constraints the model can’t see: politics, licensing, cash timing, union rules, or family bandwidth.
After the first pass, ask it to attack the weakest assumption in the draft.
Use this when
Applications are in, funds are limited, and someone already lobbied for a favorite.
You'll need
- Award criteria and amounts
- Committee composition and conflicts
- Application components
- Values the org wants to reward
You'll get
- A a weighted rubric, scorer instructions, and tie-break policy you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A a weighted rubric, scorer instructions, and tie-break policy you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
Examples
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