<p>rogracer,
I understand your criticism and agree that, as applied to a self-selecting field like engineering, there is some legitimacy to your comments. However, there is great student fluidity int the selection of college majors outside of engineering and a few other fields. In addition, whether the department is engineering or sports management or some other, the standardized test scores will still likely be a fundamental element of the original Admit/Deny admissions decision.</p>
<p>The real and much greater folly is that universites such as you describe, with 10 embedded colleges, can be encapsulated in a single Peer Assessment score. I have long argued that the student in an Engineering field doesn’t really care or know anything about the experience of the student in Sports Management and trying to judge the faculty contribution in these disparate fields is impossible.</p>