One of the most oft-quoted campus sexual assault statistics is that one college female in every five are subjected to it.

A new poll from the Washington Post and Keiser Family Foundation proved that figure is still accurate, though formal complaints are rising. More than 1,000 young males and females enrolled in college during the last four years responded to the poll and 50 agreed to an interview with the Post.

The results suggest 20 percent of women in college experienced sexual assault and 25 percent faced a wider variety of sexual encounters without their consent. Additionally, seven percent of men in college experienced sexual encounters without their consent.

According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice determined in 2000 that one in five women in college experienced sexual assault. Like the Post-Keiser poll, the previous report took both completed and attempted assaults into account.

The "one-in-five" statistic most notably appeared in the Obama Administration's "Not Alone" document from April 2014 that formed the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.

In the past few years, more students than ever are filing federal complaints against their schools for failing to uphold the Title IX law in mishandling sexual assault on campus. The Education Department even began publicly disclosing which schools are under investigation and the total has surpassed 100 relatively recently.

Two-thirds of the Post-Keiser poll respondents said they consumed alcohol before being sexually assaulted. Further, the poll identified casual sexual encounters known as "hooking up" and parties at fraternity or sorority houses as the most prevalent risk factors for sexual violence.

Such statistics and allegations of negligence on the school's part has opened discourse on truly defining consent. One 24-year-old recent graduate told the Post she had been taken advantage of while drunk and woke up thinking she "didn't agree to this."

"Whether the other person had the capacity to consent either is something to take into account," she told the newspaper. "So it's like we're both raping each other."