It varies. Girls -- and the boys, too -- get dismissed if they can't keep up through the years or drop out for their own reasons or transfer to the Academic side. The fifty best every year are chosen from the girls fifteen to eighteen.
I'd say the years I was in it -- fifteen and sixteen -- my level had about thirty girls? The years above me usually ranged from thirty to twenty. So usually, by that time, 100 or 120 to choose from.
[On paper, it doesn't look too impressive. The top half. But the Academy was demanding. To make that top half, you had to work for it.
To make it far enough in the Academy to vie for the top half was hard enough.]
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I'd say the years I was in it -- fifteen and sixteen -- my level had about thirty girls? The years above me usually ranged from thirty to twenty. So usually, by that time, 100 or 120 to choose from.
[On paper, it doesn't look too impressive. The top half. But the Academy was demanding. To make that top half, you had to work for it.
To make it far enough in the Academy to vie for the top half was hard enough.]