When searching for the perfect college, students have to take many things into consideration, such as class size, campus size, available majors and location. While all those things are important, a major aspect largely overlooked in the stress-filled college search is campus safety.

In a study done by CNN, more than 150,000 students from 27 universities were asked if they had experienced any form of unwanted sexual contact. This included anything from kissing to touching to rape. All Ivy League schools (except Princeton) participated in this survey, as well as institutions such as Iowa State University, University of Florida, and the California Institute of Technology.

The results showed that 23 percent of female students reported that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact, and 11 percent of those cases included penetration or oral sex. For female seniors the numbers were even higher, with 26 percent reporting that they had been sexually assaulted some time during their four years of college.

In some of the country’s top colleges, the numbers climbed even higher: University of Michigan students reported 34 percent, Yale students reported 32 percent and Harvard students reported 29 percent.

InvestigateWest, a nonprofit journalism studio, interviewed one college student, Emily Lorenzen, who was hazed into drinking too much alcohol and then sexually assaulted by an upperclassmen. When she went to college administration she found, “a lack of concern and desire to protect the university.”

The National Sexual Violence Resource Center says that one in five women and one in 71 men will be raped at some point in their lives. And there isn’t much being done to improve those statistics.

Lorenzen stated that the college investigation and disciplinary process victimized her. Due to the inaction by the college administration, her father, the head of the Board of Higher Education in Oregon, began to make changes in the state to help victims of sexual assault on college campuses.

Drew Faust, the president of Harvard, said, “The results warrant the attention and concern of everybody in our community. Sexual assault is intolerable, and we owe it to one another to confront it openly, purposely, and effectively. This is our problem.”