IB Vs. Equities Vs. PE

Hi! I'm currently a rising sophomore looking to explore the finance industry, and would love some advice for my summer 2023. So far, I've gotten an offer at an IB firm (Raymond James), but I'm also doing interviews for Equity Research/Investing in SF at a well known shop that is growing on me quite a lot and also PE firms in the Bay Area as well. I would love for this internship to be the best learning/growing/networking experience for me and prepare me for a solid junior year recruitment cycle. I was wondering out of all three (since I genuinely loved all of them, though I admit I found the investing interviews to be the most intellectually stimulating), what would be the right choice here? I understand this is not a lot of context, but just broadly, what would you say would provide the best foundation for me factoring in that I don't necessarily want to start my career directly in IB and would prefer to go straight to PE or Investing instead? Thank you!

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