User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Good Idea, Bad Idea-Welcome to Beacon/@comment-3257939-20140804152351/@comment-3146930-20140804185935

Beacon accepts students from all over the world, so if anyone can apply to the school from anywhere, then the initiation could have thousands of students just show up on that day instead of the limited number of first years we see. Also the initiation was a way to decide on teams and acted as their first test at Beacon. However just to enroll in Beacon, there is an entrance exam. So the initiation at Beacon seems more like a way to decide teams based on those that passed the entrance exam in the first place.