My husband is finishing up his masters and I'm ready to apply for my Biomed doctoral program for next Fall, but he might not be done with his degree by the end of next summer (it's about 50/50) and living apart just isn't acceptable (we're looking to move across the country for my phd).
If I'm accepted to a program, what is the likelihood that I'll be able to defer until the next year or just a semester? Is this an accepted thing to do or is it frowned upon and I'll be possibly sacrificing the opportunity? Someone told me it depends on the professor - the programs I'm looking at are ones in which your first year is full of rotations in multiple labs and your stipend paid via the university and not a professor's lab. Thoughts?