Yale junior Elizabeth E. Gerard objected to the magazine's portrayal of students there as hiding their stress.
"It's definitely stressful, and I don't agree we hide it," she said. "We're proud of our stress level."
"The food does suck, by the way," she added, confirming the article's assertion.
But Williams College senior Sarah W. Dugan said the portrayal of Williams as friendly but isolated was accurate.
"It's kind of small in the winter," she said. "It's hard to motivate to do anything."
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The accuracy of Harvard's profile may be due to the fact that an undergraduate, Erin M. Bush '98, assisted author Linda Tischler, with the research.
Bush is in London and could not be reached for comment