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Great, thank you! Is there a general consensus out there regarding how departments or schools view it if a student first accepts an unfunded offer and changes their mind to go to a school offering funding before the April 15 deadline (e.g. sometime in February or early March)?

I am deciding between two schools' PhD offers. Both are R1 public research universities and are comparably ranked on most of the ranking systems out there. Both are in areas within the U.S. that I would love to live in. I would enjoy working with either professor in these two programs. My main concern is guaranteed funding vs. possible funding as well as research I love vs. research I like. School A: Older school and well-established that has been highly ranked for a long time. Research lines up perfectly with what I want to do, and the professor I would be working with has been cited a lot in my field. Funding is competitive, and a small portion of students receive funded teaching or research positions while some don't. Those decisions have not been made yet. They haven't offered a funding package yet, but they might, though it is not guaranteed. That scares me a bit. For those that are not set up with a teaching or research assistantship, the department promises to help each student find work somewhere on campus that offers partial or full tuition remission sometime before or within their first year. Professor cranks out a lot of publications, and his former students find great work in academia or industry afterward. His former students produced the same type of research I would like to do, and they have also been cited relatively often for being so young. School B: Newer school, but still highly ranked. The student body is double the size of school A. Research is in an area that I like, but not love like in School A. I know I could make the most of it. The professor is younger with fewer publications and citations Funding is provided via a research assistantship which covers most of my tuition for five years plus a small yearly salary. I was leaning heavily towards School A, and I even accepted the admission offer via email, but I have not signed anything yet. I am now second guessing my choice because School B provided me with the funding offer, though I am still relatively confident that I made the right choice in selecting School A. I hear that accepting and then changing one's mind is heavily frowned upon, though it happens sometimes. I hear that it is especially frowned upon if there is a funding offer. If it comes down to it and I am not offered a funding package at School A, and I have to work somewhere on campus in something like administration, I would have to do administration plus research and coursework. In comparison to School B where the research I will be doing is paid, so there is no second job I would have to do. Thoughts?

All paragraphs had one blank line spaced out between them except for one. I didn't notice this until I submitted my documents to their admissions department via email per their instructions. Should I try and resend a revised copy? Example of formatting issue is attached