@tk21769 NYUAD had 15k applicants last year. UCB isn’t considered THAT desirable because they have a low yield. Parchment is alright, although the room for error is large as they really don’t have that much data. That being said, their methodology is the best - I agree.
@happy1 Considering I didn’t apply to most of those colleges for the reasons you specified I don’t believe you are directing your comment at me? 
@latichever That’s why I used only the RD yield rates, so the percentage of the class taken ED wouldn’t matter. Yes, I made a general assumption that the quality of applicant pools for these colleges are similar - most schools don’t publish data on that. NYUAD did note that their average applicant had an ACT score of 27 (largely due to NYU students being able to apply to NYUAD with no additional work necessary).
@GMTplus7 I think genome analysis would be a better way to find the most compatible spouse no?
My personal goal for this ranking was to compare liberal arts colleges with the universities, not so much create a ranking system - that was a byproduct. My predictions weren’t actually very far off (I thought beforehand that Pomona and Dartmouth would be around the same).