User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Good Idea, Bad Idea-Welcome to Beacon/@comment-3257939-20140804152351/@comment-3257939-20140804221135

There were 32 students, 16 pieces which means 8 teams in a single test. Unless there was a single initiation, then, you're saying only 32 students made it to the initiation. From that crowd, and the gigantic place that Beacon is, I find it hard to believe that only 32 students are accepted.

And if there was more than one initiation, I bet that the initiation was the real test. The only thing Ozpin said was that there is a rigorous entrance exam that can only be passed with training and preparation sharp enough to survive. The key word is that Ozpin said to Blake: ''You survived. ''I believe that he is talking about the initiation which is launching students to a forest full of creatures of Grimm.