One day earlier.
Hinata sat in the waiting room of the office, there was a long line ahead of her, most of them were familiar faces.
In the academy, there were many different cliques, the nobles with higher status families formed their own circles, the normal nobles had their own circles, the students from extremely wealthy backgrounds would intermingle with the nobles but they had their own groups as well.
Then there were the candidates that held the most diverse group, although that diversity did come with a price and that price was talent, prove your ability and they'd be happy to let you in.
But if you lacked talent that made you stand out or stand above others in any field, they wouldn't even cast you a second glance and humiliate you for trying to get close to them.
Lastly was the common students, those that were in the academy on scholarships, and even then there were another two cliques, the students with parents and the orphans.