OP, you might find this thread, Looking for advice in Merit aid for a top 1% student interesting. I learned so much from it, even if my boxes aren’t exactly the same. It is long, but worth following their journey from the top IMO.
I particularly like posts #1468 and #1527 (I could be off by 1). On the first he lists Top 10 misconceptions he had before the process and the second is a very detailed, broken down, comparison list of the financial awards they received from each of the 20+ schools where his daughter was accepted.