samman1994 and ANerdHasNoName, why are your personal deadlines for graduate school so firm? Is this some sort of immigration thing, where if you wait too long, you will no longer be eligible to apply for grad schools in the United States?
From a career perspective, it would make more sense to spend more than a year at a position, so that when you leave for grad school, you will have more accomplishments on your CV, good references from the company, a larger professional network, and hopefully more money in your bank account to pay for your schooling if your schooling is not paid for.
Both of you make it sound as though you have no other choice but to lie in your job applications because you must start graduate school the following year. Unless there is something I'm missing, and please inform me if this is the case, that doesn't seem to be true in either of your situations.