User blog comment:WarrenWitch/Yang nails it, Pyrrha gets her man, Weiss chooses the lesser of two evils...and Ruby hits a crow/@comment-11942246-20130816050909/@comment-11188061-20130816113348

Speaking of which, you really need to start facing the facts, BenRG. I repeat, Ozpin had warned the students beforehand that they will die if they don't fight, and here you're assuming that he's just trying to scare them, even though until now his behavior towards the students were nothing but dead seriousness. You're forgive me for saying this, but if this was a horror movie and you're in it, you'll very likely be the very first victim to get murdered and eaten for plainly disbelieving danger.

Back to the topic. Don't think about your usual school or university or training centers and stuff. Think military (Again, if it wasn't obvious enough since the Academy, as sweet as it sounds, is a place where they train warriors to murder monsters, if the word 'slaying' didn't strike you hard enough). Do you think that when say, an American enlisted himself as a soldier and he was KIA, outraged parents are going to ''get the military shut down? This is no playground here, buddy, this is a place where you're trained to kill or be killed for the sake of mankind. Death is an acceptable risk from the very beginning, anyone who's been in the military knows that, and the students enrolled into the Academy should know that very well.''

This was exactly why Ozpin showed them a complete no-nonsense attitude from the very beginning. They're not there to baby them or keep their lives happy, they're there to make sure every single one of the students are tough, resolute enough warriors so they could actually protect people.

While your naivety of the situation is not a bad sign (means your side of the world is apparently peaceful), your blindness to the very serious situation is frustrating to say the least. I'm not a soldier, but I dare say a veteran would find your very words insulting.

Also, you also highly underestimate the students' abilities. They have trained for years in Signal Academy and honed their skills (as mentioned by Ozpin), and I am incredibly sure that they did the 'Test Dummy' stuff way way way back then.

Finally, Ruby has experience fighting real Beowolves already. When she daydreamed the image of a Beowolf came up in her mind, and when speaking with Weiss she stated clearly that she knows how to deal with monsters. I won't be surprised if some other candidates had the same experience as well.