"Students now spend their entire senior year anticipating these performative moments, and increasingly, that performance doesn’t just follow the decision — it influences it." One of my high school senior clients — dressed like she was heading to a party — knelt in the middle of her carefully staged bed, every inch covered in University of Michigan merchandise. It looked like the M Den had exploded in her bedroom. She was pretending to drink from a champagne bottle bedazzled in blue and maize,