2029 Fintech Academy - Greenwood Project Scholar Program

About The Greenwood Project At Greenwood Project , we open doors in financial services for undergraduate freshmen. We give our scholars three things: social capital, the network that comes from knowing people inside the industry. Academic and technical capital, the training the work actually requires. And aspirational capital, the belief that the seat belongs to you. This is not a workshop series. Scholars commit to twelve months of training, deliver real work on real deadlines, and finish knowing whether this industry is for them. Many go on to internships and full time offers at our partner firms. All of them leave with a network they did not have before. The Fintech Academy This academy trains the analytical and operational foundation underneath financial services: how markets are structured, how money actually moves through systems, where it breaks, and what the rules require. Financial services now hires analysts, operators, and risk professionals in the same numbers it hires traditional finance roles, and those jobs are open to people who did not start out in finance. Where this training leads These are the roles this academy prepares you for, and they hire sophomores and juniors in real numbers. Each one maps directly to what you will study.
• Fintech product and operations analysis. Working alongside product and operations teams to find what is broken, decide what matters most, and make the case for fixing it. This is the role our capstone puts you in.

• Trading operations. Everything that has to happen after a trade is agreed. Confirming it, clearing and settling it, making sure the right money and securities land in the right accounts, and finding the break when they do not. Trading desks cannot function without this, and it is one of the largest entry points into a firm.

• Operations more broadly. The rest of the machinery: onboarding clients, moving payments, reconciling accounts, handling corporate actions. When operations fails, it is expensive and public.

• Risk, compliance, and fraud. Figuring out what could go wrong, how likely it is, and how much it would cost. This includes fraud detection and the checks that confirm who a firm is doing business with.

Program Overview We are recruiting 100 scholars into the Fintech Academy for the 2029 cohort. Across all three Greenwood academies we will select 325. You are eligible if you are currently a freshman graduating in 2030. We call this the 2029 cohort because Summer 2029 is the internship you are working toward. When What happens

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October 2026 to June 2027: Rolling admissions. Decisions every month. November is the priority round.

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July 2027: Academy begins.

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July 2027 to June 2028: Twelve months of training, from the summer after freshman year through your sophomore year.

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Fall 2028: Junior year internship recruiting season. Greenwood supports you through interviews.

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Summer 2029: The goal: a 10 week internship with a partner firm, the summer after your junior year.

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Spring 2030: You graduate.

How rolling admissions works We review applications and make decisions every month from October 2026 through June 2027. You will hear back within 4 weeks of the round your application lands in. Seats fill as we go, so the earliest rounds have the most of them open. Apply early. You get one application You submit one application for this cohort. Not one per academy, and not one per round. Our Talent & Recruitment team may move you to a different academy than the one you selected if your answers point somewhere else, so you do not need to get that choice perfect. Every application gets one of three outcomes:

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Accepted. You are in.

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Deferred. We want to see more before we decide, usually your next term of grades. Your application carries forward automatically and you do not need to submit anything new. You will hear from us about two weeks before the next round of decisions, and again every month until we decide. You will not sit i