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College Admissions: 15 Ways to Predict Where You’ll Get In

Which extracurriculars do top colleges consider most valuable? What's a “good” SAT score? Anneli Rufus on 15 stats that hint at what your dream school wants to see on your transcript.

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If you're female, your chances of being accepted into an elite college are 25.9 percent.

And if you're male, they're only 24.1 percent. In preparing for college, "women are generally doing better these days" than their male high-school classmates, says Mike Moyer, the author of How

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