Backing out of Unfunded Offer?

[switch]

If I accept an unfunded offer then receive a funded offer later, will there be repercussions/bad blood if I back out of the unfunded offer?

[Henry Hudson]

possibly, but it really shouldn't matter.

It's not like they were willing to invest in you, nor were you sitting on funding that could have gone to someone else.

and presumably your future supervisor wouldn't have poured a lot of effort into you as of yet either. If s/he was really worried about filling a quota for supervisees, s/he could have beaten the bushes to find you some funding.

so the only real blow to the non-funding U would be to their enrollment numbers - which they have to expect, if they're not funding people; even real life-related funding issues will likely cause acceptees to back out.

unless the unfunded program is the perfect/irreplaceable program, I'd choose the funded.

[pookie]

I would just take the funded offer for money's sake.

If I accept an unfunded offer then receive a funded offer later, will there be repercussions/bad blood if I back out of the unfunded offer?