User blog comment:Varzan Deodinm Beldinm/RWBY Episode 12... wow.../@comment-96.52.251.81-20131008030726

I feel this is the place to post my head-canon, the one I use to cope with Jaune being a bit of a lying cheat.

I call it the prodigy program.

Beacon Academy pulls it's students from the creme-de-la-crop of other battle schools, but what happens if It can't fill the roster? Have odd numbered teams? That wouldn't really work, and would unbalance the entire team system.

The Prodigy Program works like so:

If Beacon Academy has empty slots, a teacher, who is chosen randomly, is allowed to pick a student they feel would excell at the academy. This is how Ruby got into Beacon Academy, much before she finished her training at Signal.

Maybe another teacher picked Jaune. Saw him doing something, somewhere, and decided he needed to test him a little further. Offered him some "Fake" transcripts, in exchange for some favors. Maybe a Ursa paw or something, something to prove he wouldn't instantly die at the Academy.

Jaune obviously succeeds, and fills in the transcipts.

But the transcripts, despite what he was told, are not fake. Completely legit. This Professor, whoever he or she might be, doesn't tell him they are real, to test his virtue.

This is how I cope.

If I'm right you all owe me a drink.