Talk:Team RWBY/@comment-10390252-20130716115238

Here's my guess: I think that Beacon Academy has a policy where students in their Junior or Senior year are assigned to 'mentor' groups of Freshmen, creating four-person teams who will train together, learn together and fight together. This has two advantages: First, it allows hard-headed Freshmen to learn from more experienced students to whom they would more likely be receptive (student being better than teacher as authority figures in most kids' eyes). Secondly, it helps train the older student in team leadership and taking responsibility for others.

Yang is obviously going to be looking after Ruby, Weiss and Blake. It looks like Jaune is going to have his own group too, who may turn out to be Team RWBY's rivals.