Shortly after enrollment, LePoint was caught in a collapsing campus residence building where she survived the catastrophic January 17, 1994, Northridge earthquake, which destroyed the university campus, injuring 8,700, and killing her classmate among the 56 others. LePoint continued at California State University, Northridge to study and tutor mathematics receiving the "Karen, Leo and Rita Saulter Memorial Award", and graduating as 1 of top 5, of a 6,500 graduating class in 1998.