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[quote=Anonymous]Well as someone who graduated college in the 2000s, I would say it is far from rampant.  I believe it has always happened occasionally, and from what my mother describes, it was more prevalent in the past when there were fewer laws in place to prevent sexual harassment, although still relatively rare.  I believe that part of why you're hearing about it so much is that teenage girls like to gossip, and if someone in their social circle is doing it, it is something scandalous that is exciting to talk about.  I went to undergrad at a SLAC and grad school at a large research university and just anecdotally it appears to me that it happens with more frequency at universities with strong research programs where hot shot professors can practically get away with murder if they are famous and bring a lot of prestige and grant money to the university than it does at institutions like liberal arts schools that are primarily oriented toward undergraduate education.  I also think profs sleeping with grad students is more common than with undergrads--not that either is terribly common.  So if she is going to what you describe as a "very good school" (ivy, or top state school like UVA), I wouldn't be surprised that it happens occasionally.[/quote]

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