User blog comment:Jkphantom9/RWBY clip on Lazer Team Livestream/@comment-3146930-20140622170015/@comment-3146930-20140622180752

That is possible, but it seems like a lot of effort. I say this because so far, Cinder seems to be operating mostly in Vale, as she recruited Roman and the White Fang to carry out robberies in that area. If Mercury and Emerald are from another country, she would need to travel to other placed and find a way to learn about the students without being caught by the Hunters of that region. Plus if students are in a team of four, Cinder would need to find students that could not only fool the teachers that everything is normal, but also their own teammates. The last bit of confusion for me is that we never see the other members of their team, as the opening has those two, Cinder, and Roman fighting RWBY. You would think that even if they aren't competing, their teammates would be right next to Emerald as Mercury competed.

For me, making some fake papers seems like a more logical conclusion considering all the other people that seem to have fake papers. Maybe Cinder posed as their teacher and said they were home schooled, lol.