Better Internship Sophomore Year?

Currently interning at a small investment bank (this spring), and while it's been great to learn more about IB I don't exactly love my team. I also get very little (basically 0) modeling or valuation experience and I learn it on the side by myself.

If I interned a private equity search fund this summer (instead of an IB) how would that look considering I'll be recruiting this summer. 

3.7 GPA at a target for context

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