Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24177652-20141213090518/@comment-3146930-20150306113621

Because it isn't beneficial to Beacon either to have students die. If students die during initiation, that would screw up the number of teams or you could end up with a team with less people. Plus Beacon is looking to train future Hunters to defend the kingdom from Grimm or criminals like Cinder. So for every student that dies, that is one less Hunter in the future defending the people. I think I also mentioned that based on the number of chess pieces, there are a limited number of teams (meaning a limited number of first years), so it would be in their benefit to examine those that apply.

Also you said it yourself, Jaune is an idiot. Yet he got his hands on some fake transcripts and all of a sudden he gets into Beacon? It isn't plausible, otherwise more idiots would do it. If the system is that broken, you could end up with an entire first year class of people that never even held a sword before (and then get to watch as they are all lauched to their deaths off a cliff). If anything, Beacon would probably be more focused on a suspicious transcript like Jaune's in order to prevent people like him from getting in.