User blog comment:The Bespectacled Guy/On World of Remnant 2/@comment-10380701-20140919000337/@comment-4010415-20140921043826

Actually, I think the exchange student teams are there for an entire semester, since Ruby said they're just starting their second semester and the tournament is at the end of the semester.

But yeah, there were people asking how Cinder managed to enroll at Beacon. She didn't enroll at Beacon. She posed as an exchange student. She probably brought all the right paperwork that Haven students are supposed to have.