<p>I'm wondering if I could defer the admission to a grad school after I accepted their offer. What if I want to take a year off, but I don't want to go through the admissions process again? Would that look terrible on my records? Should I just wait and go to grad school and do a few years study and then take a year off?</p>
<p>Some programs will let you do it, and some won't. If you want to defer, you should email the specific department in question.</p>
<p>One of the people who interviewed with me the year I was applying wanted to take a year off, so she ended up choosing her program based on whether it would allow her to defer. I don't think it went "on her record" or anything like that -- she will just be entering grad school this year as if she'd been a 2007 applicant instead of a 2006 applicant.</p>