I wrote this up for another student - I am copy/pasting it here for you.
Almost every college gathers a set of statistics on a common form. These are called The Common Data Set. You will need to google the college name and common data set.
For example: Vassar http://institutionalresearch.vassar.edu/docs/Vassar-College-CDS-2015-16.pdf
At many LACs guys have a higher acceptance rate than the girls. You will find the breakdown of applications by gender in section C1. Guys had an acceptance rate of 35%; girls had a rate of 21%. Keep this in mind as you look at colleges and check it out.
There is a chart in section C7 where the colleges check off criteria that they consider important. Vassar does not consider the level of applicant interest. Some some colleges do. Also check how important GPA is to them.
Section C8c for whether or not the ACT/SAT essay is required
Section C9 breaks down score ranges.
Section C21 shows you how many students were accepted in the early decision round. Some colleges are accepting 30-40% in the early round which throws off the true acceptance rate of the regular round.
There is all kinds of good data in there.