Need a little more back ground. How'd you meet? Have you met in person yet? First date? What are you looking for with her? Do you know?
I sometimes will meet chicks for a quick drink or coffee, as a means to qualify them, and also to get the initial face to face out of the way. Then, once we've happily made it through that first drink, and I still want to see her (and vice versa of course), I'll schedule something more involved: Sometimes a night out (with the plan to end up at my/her place), or, a lot of the times, I'll go straight to movie night at my/her place.
Only thing I can thing of where it may effect you negatively, is if this chick just wants to pull a one-niter, and bang you rite from the get go, and by meeting her first, you could throw a wrench into her plans of giving you quick easy sex. But, IMO, no big loss if that's the case.