Advice: defer acceptance?

Started by Fall1515
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option 1. any modern day higher education institution will record lectures. or you can just read the book/notes on classes you missed.
 
Unless I'm missing something here, it's a no brainer. Go with option 2.

Saving 30,000 in the long run does not matter if you graduate school a year earlier and make 100,000 your first year out. In essence, option two makes you $70,000.

So unless you have a job that will pay you $70,000 this year, go with choice 2.
 
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An addendum to my original post: Option 1 the way it is written assumes that you have to defer a year, but I'd argue you probably could just miss 1.5 weeks. Heck people in my class extended their breaks or went to conventions or even spent 2 weeks on mission trips and it didn't set them back. Your first 1.5 weeks are likely just going to be intro stuff/orientation/syllabus review
 
I'm also very interested what schools y'all are able to get deferred at. I'm entering a post-bac program with an option of 1 or 2 years so optometry schools that allow deferment are my no.1 choice, assuming I end up wanting to do 2 years.