Of course you can do whatever you like in class. You pay your money. It's up to you. And there are lots of women who do the classes as leads.
However, unless you're one of those people who take to Ceroc like the proverbial duck to water, then I advise against it.
Most ladies when they start (and quite often several years later!) have a tendancy to anticipate moves and also back-lead. Following is a skill that in most cases, has to be learnt, and practised.
There are a number of excellent female dancers around who can both lead and follow. My experience of some female dancers doing both though, is that they tend not to be particularly good at following. I think that it's a good idea to become adept in one skill, before you start learning another. Of course, since I don't know who you are, I will say that it's entirely possible, especially if you have previous partnered dance experience, that you are adept. However, for most people, 3.5 months is barely enough to have moved into the intermediate stage, and feel comfortable both doing the class, and learning to follow.
I would say that from the followers perspective, classes don't always particularly help in learning moves - after all, generally you don't need to learn moves, you need to learn how to follow them (with some nice style might help too!). So probably freestyle is the place where you'll learn more - both by dancing, and watching other experienced girls dance. In that way, it's not quite the same as other dances. However, that doesn't mean that you'll never learn anything in a class - especially again after only 3.5 months!
From your post, it sounds as if you want to improve as a dancer. Can you honestly say that in 3.5 months you've progressed so far as a follow, that you are ready to move on? If so, I'll look forward to a dance with you!
Hope this helps. Even if it's probably not what you were hoping to hear!
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