Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20170816155108/@comment-26397825-20170818140241



You act as those just anyone can apply and be accepted (which they obviously can't since there's high standards for even getting to the Initiation stage in the first place, enough so that Jaune had to get fake transcripts), and that there are actually hundreds of students who make it through Initiation.



If you look at the number of students in the Hall for Ozpin's speech compared to the number of students who actually made it into the school, there's a great discrepancy. Ooblecks history class has enough open spots in it a second year student can sit in the class and not make anyone feel crowded.



In fact, there's open seats where they could fit more students but don't have any to sit there.

And Glynda's sparring class is so empty, Mercury and Emerald join it and don't impact how many empty spaces there are on the benches.

There are 3 named teams at Beacon in the first year. There's maybe 8 silhouettes in Ooblecks class, and half a dozen background chaacters in Glynda's. That's about 20 students for the entire first year class. I've seen kindergarten teachers handle more students, let alone college campuses.

That implies a ton of applicants actually failed Initiation - which, really, there's probably multiple through the day, not just the one that RWBY and JNPR went through. Otherwise there's no way all those students would be launched at once.

So there isn't a waiting list, because there is very obviously enough space for more students to be in the classes but they're not filled and three quarters of the applicants who filled into the auditorium before Initiation simply aren't there.