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    Average
    salary
     subjects in a September study offered a fictional
    woman
     applying for a
    U.S.
    university
     laboratory
    position
     : $26,408


    Average salary they offered a fictional
    man
     with identical credentials : $30,328


    Percentage of freshmen at four-year
    colleges
     who declare "
    Roman Catholic
    " as their religious affiliation : 26


    Who declare "
    None
    " : 25


    Percentage of
    college
     students in
    Iran
     who are
    female
     : 56


    Number of subjects that
    Iranian
    universities
     have
    barred
     undergraduate
    women
     from studying : 77



    Percentage change in the likelihood a
    child
     will eat an
    apple
     from the
    school
     cafeteria if the apple has an
    Elmo
     sticker on it : +68


    Percentage increase since 2000 in the
    compensation
     of full
    professors
     at the fifty wealthiest private
    U.S.
    universities
     : 14
    In the compensation of the
    presidents
     of those universities : 75


    Average SAT score (out of 2400) of
    students
    from
    households
     with an
    income
     below $21,000 : 1322 ,
    From households with an income above $210,000 : 1722


    Average out-of-state tuition
    surcharge
     a resident
    child
     of
    illegal
     immigrants must pay to attend a Florida public
    university
     : $14,521


    ,

    . Jo Handelsman, Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)

    ,

    . Higher Education Research Institute (Los Angeles)

    . UNESCO Institute for Statistics (Montreal)

    . Human Rights Watch (N.Y.C.)

    . American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Durham, N.C.)

    . National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.)

    ,

    . The Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington)

    . The College Board (N.Y.C.)