Talk:Beacon Academy/@comment-76.14.204.130-20140502234556/@comment-3146930-20140503001035

You also have to consider that a student doesn't just go to Beacon for a year, it is a multi-year school and there are probably students that have been there longer. Ruby and the other main cast are just in their first year after all and maybe only 40 passed the initiation.

However it is also possible that they had several "rounds" of initiation. For example, despite there being enough relics for 40 people, there is only a fraction of that on the cliff where they are launched from. This could lead to some 2-person teams not getting more members if no one else picked a Gold-Bishop or Black-Pawn for example. Maybe they sent in a certain number of people for round one, then sent in another group until all the relics were gone. There is also the chance that the Emerald Forest wasn't the only testing site or there were other testing sites within the forest.