I think current applicants should only be concerned if they believe that the current administration is not being forthcoming about the investigation or scope of the prior problem. I don’t mean to suggest that’s the case at all, just that this would be the right question to ask yourself. No one can rewind time, and the fact that abuse happened in the 1970s and 1980s, or that the abuse was covered up by prior administrations, should not be germane to an assessment of the school today. Personally, I thought that the current administration seemed to have done a good job handling a difficult situation (in terms of being willing to conduct an investigation voluntarily, releasing the information publicly, turning over the files to the police, etc). The possible conflict of interest on the investigation is surprising to me, though, and I will be interested to see what the school’s response is to that issue.