The Society of Fellows is an honors program for LAS women that will challenge you and hone your critical thinking. You can broaden your intellectual and professional horizons as you think deeply, creatively, and independently while forming bonds with students across other majors.
As a member of the Society of Fellows, you’ll attend monthly in-person discussions based on an assigned book. Each discussion is led by your peers, who guide the conversation with thought-provoking questions that encourage you to develop your own ideas and perceptions of the world.
Members receive an academic merit scholarship.
“More than honors coursework, you’re part of a fellowship that gets you to think in ways that you never thought before and exposes you to new ideas. We're in college, and this is really the time that we get to create our own ideas and our own perception of the world. We’re learning how we can, and should, speak up and think for ourselves. It feels really relevant.”
- Dalia H.
What We’re Reading
Assigned books cover religion and Israel, philosophy, psychology, culture, and society. Some of the books we’ve read in the past include:
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present, by Dara Horn
Warriors Don't Cry, by Melba Patillo Beals
Start With Why, by Simon Sinek
Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande
The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch
The War on the West, by Douglas Murray
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
The Great Pretender, by Susannah Cahalan
Nudge, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
The Drowned and the Saved, by Primo Levi
Playing Big, by Tara Mohr
How to Apply
Membership is limited to 12-14 women per year.
Interested students must apply to the Society of Fellows during seminary or before starting at LAS. To be eligible to apply, applicants must:
- Have earned a minimum SAT score of 1350 and an average grade of 90 or above (or GPA of at least 3.8) while in high school.
- Complete the Society of Fellows application, including a personal statement.
- Submit letters of recommendation. Recommendation letters should be sent directly to briendy.stern@touro.edu.
- Write two personal essays as part of your application.
- Complete an interview with Dr. Briendy Stern or Dr. Reena Baaser.
To remain in the Society of Fellows, you must maintain a GPA of 3.65 throughout your time at LAS.
