Yes. The fellowship began last year as a one-campus trial at Harvard, but The School for Moral Ambition is already expanding the fellowship to a handful of other major universities across the U.S. and hopes to continue growing in the future.

Yes — for now. These first fellowships are exclusively for Harvard and Princeton students. Future cohorts may open up to other schools, but this pilot is designed to build something deeply rooted in the Harvard and Princeton ecosystems first.

The School for Moral Ambition will execute a matching process between host organizations and selected students starting in May 2026 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.

Selection is based on the full application rather than any single component. Your academic and extracurricular background are relevant, but we are also interested in learning about how you have and will continue to use your talents to create meaningful impact. Your essay responses will help us start to build that picture, and the interview portion of the process will help us to learn more about you and your motivations.

Please email laura@moralambition.org.

Applicants will submit a resume and respond to two short essays questions and may be invited to on campus interviews with our recruiter.

For decades, elite universities like Princeton have funneled their talented alumni into careers that optimize profit margins. We hope that redirecting even a small number of the best students at the most prestigious schools toward problems like climate change, wealth inequality, or global health will have a ripple effect across many more campuses.