[Titchou]

Quota is always a range. It is then narrowed to a set number by the RFM specialist assigned to the school and the Greek Adviser. It often can happen that top recruiting chapters take just quota and that other groups take 10-15% more making it look like the chapter with lower numbers did not make quota. But that is not the case. An example, a few years ago, quota was 24 at a school I have worked with. All the groups made exactly quota except for 1 who took 33. It looks as if 3 didn't make quota and one did. The fact was all made quota and ALL the quota additions went to the one group.
I could cite other examples too but suffice it to say that just because a group took the lowest number does not automatically mean they took less than quota.

And let me repeat, ALL chapters have the same quota. Period. End of story. No other way about it. Anything else and NPC would be on them like, as we say around these parts, white on rice. Your friends are giving you bad information - whether they are mkaing it up or just repeating something someone else has said. It may also be that they do not understand RFM any better than you do which can cause a lot of false assumptions.

I suggest you get a copy of the MOI, most likely available from the secure part of your national organization's web site, and read it = cover to cover. It will be enlightening. And then you can quota chapter and verse to your friends and ask that they explain themselves.