What internship will help me get a wall street job

I'm currently a freshman at the Wharton School and I'm trying to figure out what I should do with my summer to stand out or make it easier to get a good wall street job after graduation (i-bank, hedge fund, PE, whatever I can get). My GPA sort of sucks (3.14 but I think I should be able to pull that up a bit after this semester). So, basically my options for this summer are to get an internship with a smaller bank back home (bank of oklahoma), get an internship with a fortune 500 natural gas company and work in either the finance department or energy trading department, or take classes to try to improve my GPA and/or get enough credits to graduate in 3 years. What would be the most useful for me later on?

Also, this is my first post in Wall Street Oasis. . .is there another forum I should post this question in?

 
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