Which factors best account for academic success: Those which college students can control or those they cannot?

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Transition from high school to university: a person-centered approach to academic achievement (2016, background): “Dollinger et al. (2008) concluded that past performance and abilities could explain about 37 % of the academic achievement of college students.”
Predicting Student Performance from LMS Data: A Comparison of 17 Blended Courses Using Moodle LMS (2017, background): “2 Total time online (min) [13], [28], [31], [32], [37], [39] 4,989 815 678 Number of course page views [32], [33] 4,989 208 144 Irregularity of study time [31], [42], [43] 4,989 1,926 993 Irregularity of study interval 4,989 309,000 252,000 Largest period of inactivity (min) 4,989 20,500 13,100 Time”
Investigating Factors Related to Retention of At-Risk College Students. (2011, background): “Certain personality factors are helpful in predicting the success or non success of at-risk students’ GPAs and retention (Dollinger et al., 2008).”
Achievement among first-year university students: an integrated and contextualised approach (2013, background): “2004), past performance (DaDeppo 2009), attendance (Dollinger et al. 2008), self-efficacy (Bandura 1997), social support (Fass and Tubman 2002), self-regulatory strategies (Minnaert and Janssen 1999) and certainty of study choice (Husman and Lens 1999).”