Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20170816155108/@comment-14138255-20170818155143

I don't think the headcounts in the episodes should be taken at face value. Plenty of classes in real life are listed as overbooked but at quite empty when someone actually checks how many people are there. Besides, V1 and V2 were quite cheap in production value. Palomar (community) College has 31,519 students and counting, and I'd guess 1/3rd of the size, including the dorms across the street. Duke, a prestigious university that's tough as balls to qualify for, has 14,832. Granted Beacon has to provide for all student housing, but Beacon still accounts for a chunk of Vale's map size. It'd be safe to assume several thousand more students attend Beacon than are shown.