Landing MC summer internship with subpar expereince

I am a sophomore econ major at Northwestern and am very interested in management consulting. I have a 3.85 and decent extracurriculars but I'm worried because my internship experience over the past two years has been very mediocre.

For what its worth, I do have things to talk about in interviews (case competitions, etc.) but I really feel like the lack of any impressive work experience will prevent me from landing a competitive summer internship before my senior year.

Any advice on compensating for this in other parts of my resume?

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