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Please email laura@moralambition.org.

The selection process is skill-based, focusing on the relevant skills and mindsets crucial for success. After the initial application, which takes approximately one hour, the process includes a one-hour on-campus interview.

The School for Moral Ambition will execute a matching process between host organizations and selected juniors starting in December 2025 to ensure tight alignment. We anticipate that host organizations will be high-impact nonprofits with potentially disruptive approaches — for example, one host organization leads the largest no-strings-attached giving program in the world.

This program is for members of the class of 2027 — so current juniors. If you have taken an accelerated course load but are officially a member of the class of 2027, we ask that you wait a year.

Yes — for now. This first fellowship is exclusively for Harvard juniors in good standing. Future cohorts may open up to other schools, but this pilot is designed to build something deeply rooted in the Harvard ecosystem first.

Yes. Harvard is just the beginning. We’re starting here to prove the model: that you can pay top students to do meaningful work and that they’ll take it. Once we show the impact, we plan to expand to other major universities across the U.S. Moral Ambition is a movement, not a one-campus experiment.

By senior year, most students have already chosen their path. The Moral Ambition University Fellowship meets students right before that fork in the road offering them a viable, well-funded, high-impact alternative before they get locked into a default career track.

For decades, elite universities like Harvard have quietly funneled top talent into careers that optimize for margin, not meaning. In 2022, 58% of Harvard grads went into consulting, finance, or tech. If we can help even a small number of the best students at the most prestigious school redirect their talent toward solving real problems like climate change, inequality, or AI safety it can have a ripple effect across campuses (and boardrooms) everywhere.