Some, maybe many, colleges do give males greater consideration in admissions, especially on their GPAs…there are a number of sources on that including Jeff Selingo in his most recent book.
He did a CC thread here too and also confirmed that there, around post 61, see here (and I don’t know why my posts had such wacky large fonts in that thread!)
Reviewing that thread reminds me how much I used to enjoy lookingforward’s perspectives, I learned a lot from her.