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Neither are target schools for consulting or IB, so in terms of one or the other being "focused" the answer is neither. With that said you could certainly network hard, get excellent grades, and end up with a very solid T2 offer. MBB is going to be more out of reach and will require connections, but not necessarily impossible. If MBB is your ultimate goal, you're better off acing your freshman year at the safety school (if that ends up being where you go) and then transferring to a target school.
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If you've heard something from a trusted source then I would go with that. I just don't see a significant number of OSU grads going to MBB or EYP being that likely, OSU just is not a target school by any stretch. Again, with amazing grades, great EC's, and excellent interviews it is POSSIBLE from anywhere, just unlikely if at a non-target. The hard part of a non-target program is that you will struggle to even gain interviews in the first place. You will need stand-out grades, and excellent networking to even land an interview at the major consulting firms: MBB, T2, B4. Your focus on strategy (which I agree with) only makes this even more selective. If Bain or even EYP is your end goal, you should focus on transferring out of OSU/PSU/equivalent schools.
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Oxford, INSEAD and Wharton are the "big 3" for MBB in terms of raw placement.
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