Community College or an UC School?

You do, but they supplement each other so you don’t get any additional money since they are both under the same category of need based financial aid.

In a (very) oversimplified example:

Say B&G is set to “give” you $13k toward tuition. If you receive an additional Pell grant that gives you 6k, then they would reduce your B&G allocation by the equivalent amount of 6k so that 7k comes from B&G and your total aid still remains 13k. The only way to get gain additional financial aid is through merit based aid to overcome and not need based aid.