Talk:Cinder Fall/@comment-173.55.164.2-20141121003626/@comment-4010415-20141121005452

Cinder doesn't have to be 17 to pass as a student. You're forgetting that they attend Beacon for 4 years. Students graduate at 21 years old.

Various people on the RWBY crew (including Monty) said Cinder is only a little older than the students, so my guess is early 20s, looking young enough to pass as 21. So, she may be posing as a senior student, hence why she, Merc, and Em didn't have to go on a mission, since the missions that day were for first-year students only.