Month: November 2025

Helicopter Parenting Won’t Get Your Child into Harvard

It’s that time of year again: the college admissions process for American high school seniors, where students race to prepare application essays for a chance to study at many of America’s elite colleges and universities. As a private college admissions counselor at my firm Invictus Prep, I guide a handful of students through the college […]

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Trump’s Social Media Vetting Faces Free Speech Backlash. But Some Foreign Students Agree with Him.

The Trump administration’s new monitoring of social media for visa applicants and visa holders, in particular for international students, has generated vigorous debate over the free speech rights of non-Americans. But some of those most affected by the new policies support the intention of protecting American identity through strict immigration policy. The State Department in […]

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