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But no such college exists, at least not among the elites or larger universities. The only way to run such a college would be to have a purely academic program with generalized, across-the-board requirements for all students. It works in the context of a highly specialized program – for example, an engineering school can reasonably select for the “top” prospective engineers. </p>
<p>You can’t evaluate the prospective philosophy major on the same scale with the prospective studio art major, pre-med student, or engineer. If you only want the “top” students, then you have to figure out what that college will specialize in.</p>
<p>Or perhaps you are suggesting that colleges broaden their admission requirements to mandate that all students can display artistic talent, music proficiency, and mastery of multiple languages when they apply?</p>