A female college student was attacked by a man who pushed himself into her East Village apartment — but he was scared off when he heard her roommate, police said Saturday.

“Everyone should know what happened,” the petite 21-year-old told The Post. “They should be aware.”

The woman was walking home from a nearby 7-Eleven at around 1:45 a.m. when the man followed her into her building near Avenue A and East 12th Street.

He forced his way into her fifth-floor apartment, tackling her to the floor.

“I was screaming, ‘Help me, help me! God, f–king help me! Someone is attacking me!’ ” the woman said.

He dragged her, trying to cover her mouth with his hands and plastic.

“He did close the door [and] had his legs and arms around me. He was kind of covering me, kept telling me to shut up,” she said.

“I had a moment when I was on the ground, I was like, ‘This is it. This is how I die. There’s no point in putting up a fight at this point,’ ” the woman recalled. “He was much bigger than me. I knew there was no way I could fight this guy off.”

Then her roommate made a noise as she closed her bedroom door, startling the brute, who then immediately fled.

“The second he bolted, that was when I escaped and I ran to her room and I banged on her door,” the woman said.

The suspect is described as having a beard, a short Afro and a slim build.