You act like women shouldn’t apply, though. The Bowdoin admission rate was 16.8% for men last year, and 13.5% for women. Lower rate for women? Yes. Reason for women to not apply? No, of course not. Women should be aware that men get a boost in admission just for their gender, and they will want to make sure their stats are on the higher end. But I don’t see how this is much different from taking into account other “hooked” applicants when applying. We often tell students that the lower end of the percentiles are primarily students with hooks. This just adds another category of hook (male).