Gap semester in between schools?

Wanted to transfer this year, but also wanted my grades from this term to be counted into my application (as my high school grades weren’t great being about ~85 average overall), so I put off the transfer process until the upcoming year to apply for spring admission to schools. I really do not want to stay at my current school. If I got a very good internship or job for the next semester instead of going to school, worked on my applications and used my first year college grades, would that look bad? I have a 3.9 at a second tier liberal arts college at the moment and strong extracurriculars.