When was she acccepted by the UC‘s? When was she accepted by the Cal states?
Sometimes the financial aid award letter doesn’t come until March.
Sometimes the financial aid award letter comes with your acceptance letter.
The universities have separate financial aid departments that are busy working on financial aid packages as applications come in.
They don’t know who will or won’t be accepted, so they have to take their combined dollars and make estimates, within their budgets, to provide the aid packages. In addition to dispersing the Cal grant funds (A, B, C), Blue and Gold fund availability and private scholarship/endowment monies, the FA staff are making FA packages for current students.
Each individual University will award the financial aid dollars it has. Then their money “runs out”. It doesn’t matter that they’re all UC’s or CSU’s; they each have different funding sources. Did you receive any supplemental State University grants in any of the paperwork? You should see a mention of federal work study and or loans. That may not be out yet from some of the Cal states and UCs…