Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140926004722/@comment-25399914-20140927210840

EmbraceTheHood wrote: In no way does the amount of students shown in the amphitheater represent the actual amount of first-year students at Beacon, Haven, etc. I agree with this point.

Another thing, not all of the missions available for first-years were out-of-town missions, so it's also possible that the ones gathered in the amphitheater were just the ones who would be taking missions outside of the school's walls. But not this one as the missions were selected after the Ozpins speech.

I still believe the number of first year student is supposed to be low though.

Hunters are supposed to be a rare sight and these figures are of the top of my head so might be wrong but:

UK = population 65,000,000 - Military personnel 200,000 - that's 1 per 300 people

France = Population 70,000,000 - Military personnel 300,000 - that's one per 225 people

China = population 1,500,000,000 - military 2,000,000 - that's one per 700 people.

That's trained military staff including non frontline troops. If as some guess the total population of remnant is 5,000,000 and total trained hunters are 5,000. That's one per 1000 almost as high a proportion as Chinas entire military. Why have an army or police with such a high proportion of superheroes. This is why I want my cities at least the size of London and New York and class sizes small.