riverripper wrote:
Schools frown upon it because they take it as you are going to try for tougher schools and if you get in then you wont show up. Unless its related to medical issues, family emergency, or something very serious then its tough. Some schools do give them to college students who they want to have more work experience. Getting a promotion or something like that isn't a good reasons.
I did talk to one person who deferred for a year because they found out his wife was having a baby and they owned their own business. She was going to run it by herself but with the baby due right around the start of school they pushed it back a year and they got the OK.
Unless it's a HSW I would agree with rive. I heard a case of a guy who got into HBS and asked to be deffered, they didn't accepted; however, told him that if he wanted to apply next year he just would need to make an essay. But, the guys is Stellar, Top 1 from a Top college, very high performing professional, and his reason was because he had with some colleagues opened their business...