Smash College Admission: Promote students who are passionate about one subject but lag in the others (NYT Opinion)

The core question is whether anyone requiring remedial classes should be enrolling in the first place?

Rather than everyone getting a “college education”, where at best 1/3rd of the credits go towards the eventual major, maybe most should be getting “job/professional” education for half the time and cost, and where classes represent someone’s existing ability/interest, not requiring remedial classes in completely unrelated areas?