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All good advice up there but the one thing I would caution you consider - if you go for just a semester or a year "to see" how you like it versus taking a gap year, you will no longer be a freshman and most of the good scholarships vanish into thin air. We found that at every single of the 25 or so schools we researched, only one had transfer scholarships that where anywhere close to freshman offerings. In most cases, transfer scholarships were significantly fewer and smaller.
So I think a gap year (which at most schools will not endanger your freshman status, especially if you have communicated with them ahead of time that you want to attend but want to take a gap year) is often a financially safer way to figure out what you want than blowing that one time shot of being a freshman at a school which you have pretty big doubts about.
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