As usual @Gumbymom this is great detailed info.
My D22 applied to UC schools knowing she would be competitive for scholarships and indeed was offered two Regents awards. At the time of application, we were unaware of how relatively small the awards were compared to the total cost of OOS attendance.
Even with the Regents, the UC schools remained her most expensive options. In the end, as much as she liked the schools, she did not like them enough to justify the cost.
If we had fully processed all this info earlier, it may have saved her some applications. That said, a lot of the final decisions and weighing of cost benefit didn’t happen until we visited more schools and I don’t think she was ready to do those evaluations until senior year. Obviously, if we had a hardline budget, though, we could have used this info to eliminate them earlier.
OP, great question! This info has been shared in other threads, but often is buried in the details of long “chance me” threads that fewer people see.