AU is not on record with sites like the collegeboard for offering a FA package coming anywhere near 100% of need, whether your EFC is $0 - 10K or 30K. There is most often a "gap" for the parents to creatively find a way to meet either through plus loans or other personal resources.
College board is currently listing the average FA package as:
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Average percent of need met: 48%
Average financial aid package: $21,282
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A merit scholarship is your best chance of sufficient FA package building upon a scholarship, then added on top of that the usual federal grants and loans to their max. Do review the FA posts on this forum from the last couple years. There have been some generous scholarship offers to the brightest of the bright. Of course it's worth hoping to beat the average FA package, and the on-line app is free, but be realistic about expectation and the published FA statistics so your heart's not broken.
It's my two cents, but my D applied 3 years in a row and never received a FA offer that was more than the average.