Take Internship but Keep Recruiting?

Hi all,

I'm a rising sophomore who just got an offer for a big 4 audit internship next summer. I'm targeting finance (IB specifically, although interested in buy-side as well). I'm doing a corporate finance internship at a boutique in my city and I also was on a search fund last semester. I'm worried that it'll look weird if I go from finance to accounting when I want to do finance. But I also know it can be tough to get a job so I'm thinking of accepting the offer for next summer but recruiting for (Canadian) pensions/other IB/corpfi roles at bigger companies and reneging if I land one. Given that this is a role in another industry, do you think it would be wise to accept and keep recruiting, or should I just decline and move forward?

For a little extra background, Canadian, not a target, 4.0 GPA.

Thanks

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