Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160113034906/@comment-25110963-20160113160250

SpiritedDreaming wrote: I do have to ask Malcolm; you are aware that all students are 17 when they start Beacon except Ruby because of Ozpin moving her ahead? I've just noticed that your Beacon students so far are 16, which would actually put them in their last year of Signal.

And being born late in the year in terms of birthday cutoffs does not count, as if they missed the cutoff then they should technically be a year older. My character started at Haven Academy at 18. But that was because he was hospitalized so he couldn't start right away.