User blog comment:DiegoAnime3000/Beacon Broadcast: Episode 1 & 2/@comment-11346598-20140807063631/@comment-96.254.157.84-20140807064258

The entrance exam and Initiation are not the same thing.

And entrance exam happens BEFORE they get into the school, not after. Glynda even noted Jaune's unusualy transcripts while they were in the middle of the initiation. The initiation is designed to assign the students their teams.