Actually, they stated specifically that they wouldn’t do that. They used a hard cap (# of students) in the past when enrollment spiked in the program and they feel it was more stressful and unfair for students not knowing how well they needed to do to get in.
The number of students in the department is much much higher than it has ever been before. They are bursting at the seems (like CS everywhere else apparently).
PS the new cutoff is only for new students. Current students need only meet the old cutoff.