Should I Focus on Preparing for Investment Banking or Consulting

I will be a senior next year and applying to different firms for a job. I have all the time between now and the end of summer when applications go out to start preparing for the specific jobs. I was wondering if I were to spend all this time to prepare for the interviews of one type of job consulting or IB which would I have an easier time going for.

I have heard that consulting is difficult in the number of cases you have to complete, but investment banking also has significant difficulty in the quantitative aspects of the interview.

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