What would it take for a target school graduate 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 (i.e. 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?

 

I'm just exploring options right now, but those are things I will definitely do.

I was just wondering whether it was possible to even make this jump, considering I have very little actual business knowledge and certainly no relevant qualifications, at least relative to other people and candidates who carry the title "Management Consultant", or "Business Associate" etc.  

 

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