User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Good Idea, Bad Idea-Welcome to Beacon/@comment-5217560-20140804031026/@comment-3146930-20140804033614

From the way they talk about it, I feel like you send in transcripts like if you were applying to college, then they sort out the weakest applicants and have the remaining people take the exam, then the initiation takes place in order to decides teams. If the initiation was the exam, I'm sure there would be tons of people flooding the school from all over the world trying to get a spot, but we only see a few dozen on the ship. It just feels like the only possible way Jaune got into Beacon would be if Ozpin knows Jaune's family personally (a good possibility) and supplied Jaune with the transcripts himself to allow him to go, knowing about his possible potential.

However at this point it feels like it is as easy to get into Beacon as it is to get out of Arkham Asylum.