<p>Short answer: yes. Long answer: I don’t actually believe they had a cap. I can’t imagine the process by which any of them would have adopted a cap and enforced it for any meaningful period of time (like, more than a week), without dozens of whistleblowers exposing them. But there was lots of evidence piling up that Asian applicants seemed to be at some sort of disadvantage relative to similarly situated peers, and I think that the colleges eventually took a hard look at how they were evaluating applicants and what sorts of bias might be getting reflected. At the same time, as the number of applications to elite colleges has zoomed, I suspect the elite colleges are getting more applications from what they consider “the right sort” of Asian, i.e., someone whose most important achievements to date are other than a perfect superscored SAT, a GPA that rounds up to the highest GPA theoretically possible at that high school, and a bunch of science-competition ribbons.</p>