APD PhD acceptance rates?

From all the Ph.D. MBB consultants I've talked to in the past, it seems like the acceptance rate (# of applied / # offered position) at top-tier universities seems to lie around 25% for MBB (probably higher when considering all consulting firms). For all those Ph.D. consultants, do you think this is accurate?

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