Esteban Torres served as a World Literature teacher, track-and-field coach, and dorm parent at a prestigious Swiss boarding school. His days at The American School in Switzerland might include teaching Dante or Dostoevsky to tenth graders, advising a senior on her IB Extended Essay, and ending the evening in conversation with a homesick freshman—an experience he understood firsthand from his own early months as a boarder at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire. These multifaceted relationships have shaped Esteban’s coaching approach: thoughtful dialogue that gets to the heart of motivation, self-awareness, and growth. Drawing on years of academic and dramatic writing developed at UCLA and beyond, he is keenly aware of the gap between the analytical writing students are taught in school and the first-person narrative writing demanded by college applications. Too often, students have little practice articulating not just what they experienced but how they think—demonstrating depth, nuance, and the ability to extract meaning from experience. Esteban is passionate about making the writing process an inspiring and intellectually engaging journey, helping students discover their own voice while producing essays that resonate with admissions officers.