I think SPS is likely to see a decrease in applications. This scandal was widely publicized as some school “tradition” nation wide, and that was detrimental and it takes time for people to get it straight or forget about it. Of course, no one knows for sure. What I can say is that even for someone who is very close to boarding schools like me, if I had an 8th grade daughter, I’d be seriously looking at our options and at least without throughly looking into the school culture I wouldn’t make a quick decision.
As for the above poster’s mention of the school that accepts only “nice kids”, was that in reference to Andover? What was that about? If anything, after such an incident shouldn’t all schools be thinking how they can admit only nice kids and keep them nice while still taking care of all the “institutional needs”? And of course if could happen anywhere, but wherever it happens there will be consequences to the kids and families involved and to the school community as well.