What Would It Take To Break Into The Management Consulting Space With A Completely Unrelated Background And No Exposure?

I'll be graduating from a Masters program from a target school (Imperial, LSE, Oxbridge etc.) in 2024. My educational background is in Political Science and Philosophy. I have a Tensorflow certification and can do quite a bit with its machine learning tools for data analysis and research purposes, but I have only ever used these tools in an academic setting. I have ~8 months of work experience doing basic data analysis.

What could someone like me do to secure a position as a Management Consultant? Is it possible, or even feasible to dream of securing a position before I graduate?

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