How To Apply

Each Farber class is a carefully curated cohort of student leaders looking to apply their skills for enduring social good. We look for a combination of aptitude and intuition combined with a passion for the work and a desire to move our enterprises — and the larger movement of building an inclusive economy — forward. As with many fellowships, the applicant pool can far outpace availability, so the below seeks to demystify our application process in detail.

Click here to apply once the application opens on Dec. 11th, 2024.

2025 Application Cycle Key Dates

  • Application Opens: December 11, 2024
  • Application Closes: January 17, 2025
  • Info Session: January 8, 2025
  • First Round Interviews: January 24 – February 14, 2025
  • Second Round Interviews: February 3 – March 7, 2025
  • Offers Made: February 10 – March 14, 2025

We host on-campus info sessions in November and December, where possible. We will also be hosting a multi-school virtual information session on January 8th at 6:00pm ET for interested students. Students can register for the information session here.

If you’d like to receive a notification when the application opens, please send an email to: farber@redf.org.

The application opens on Dec. 11th, 2024 and closes on January 17th, 2025.  Click here to apply

You’ll be asked to submit a brief application on your background (including your CV) plus responses to two short essay questions on your impact aspirations and on your project management capabilities. Applications will then be evaluated to determine which candidates move on to an interview.

All qualified applicants will be invited to an interview with a Farber alum that includes a series of behavioral and case questions to determine how you think through a problem set, both in substance and approach. Each candidate will be evaluated based on work experience, leadership, potential for success in the fellowship, and performance on a case study that will be introduced live in the session. To prepare, familiarize yourself with our approach by diving into our website and imagine what possible “practice case questions” may arise given our current portfolio. After all first round interviews are complete, our team will huddle internally to determine which candidates move on to the second round.

The structure of the second round interview is in many ways a riff off of the first, with two distinctions: the case that will be reviewed is from a different scenario to help us look at your problem solving from multiple angles, and the interview will be with a REDF staff member will who directly liaise with our fellows.

After the interviews, REDF staff evaluate each candidate and work to match qualified candidates with project openings for the summer. We aim to extend offers by late February/early March.