Eligible for yes (just like the room and board), but I don’t have a sense what their average net COA is, do you?
Yes. Under $13,000 per year–but that depends upon earning the other scholarships which is quite easy for Raikes students.
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CMU or Michigan for reaches. Rice gets a lot of love on CC.
Look at the schools that offer nice scholarships for NMSF.
As for matches/targets would any of the usual suspects be any better than any of the UC’s or CS’s? Probably not.
Thanks for the edit… so as I understand it the comment about Big 10 was incidental and simply pointing out U Neb-L is a big football school. Good to know about Raikes for students looking for the possibility of a lower cost school.
Expanding on that - if one is willing to go way down the selectivity/prestige list, there are many low cost programs to pick from.
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Indeed - which also resolves this issue:
Barnard would be her “no core” option at Columbia University. 
Since they are full-pay, I’m not sure that this is necessarily true.
I don’t know how common that his, but in case of Barnard:
We broadly define international students to be 1) a citizen of a country other than the United States who has been educated abroad; 2) a U.S. citizen educated abroad; or 3) a Foreign National educated in the U.S.
However, as far as need as a decision factor:
We are need-blind for first-year US citizens and permanent residents
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Since the OP has many UCs on the list, https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requirements/freshman-requirements/california-residents/ describes UC policy on state residency for admission. US permanent residency is not a non-immigrant visa status that would exclude an applicant from state residency.
Other colleges may have their own definitions, but US permanent residency does appear to “domestic” rather than “international” for most colleges in the US.
UMass Amherst is a match to high match for you. They’ll probably accept you, probably give you honors college and their max OOS merit (16k/yr) which will bring your cost of attendance down to the low 40’s/yr. Strong CS, lovely campus, good dorms, fantastic food.
For UCs, they won’t count your 9th grade, so your GPA will be higher. They will know about your high testing, since you’ll list NMF as an award.
Are there any other CA public schools that would be appropriate in the Match category?
Go see your high school guidance counselor a few times, talk positively about how wonderfully well everything has gone - classes, ECs, tests, etc. And mention how hard it was when you got Covid right before finals in 9th grade, and how you did the best you could under the circumstances, but how it affected your performance on finals. Then ask the GC if she could write about that in her cover letter for those schools that have a GC cover letter, thus freeing up your essay space for an upbeat essay about who you are, what your hopes and dreams and goals are. For the schools that don’t take a GC cover letter, you will have to work this into the essays somehow, but keep that part short, and most of it positively focused on your aspirations and goals.
I believe that a green card holder (permanent resident) is treated the same as a US citizen in admissions and fin aid.
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UC gpa is a 4.0
I’m assuming that the 4.0 that you just quoted is the unweighted 10th-11th grade GPA (since you said all Bs were in 9th grade)?
It may help to calculate your UC capped and uncapped weighted GPAs using Roger Hub:
https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/
With an unweighted 3.94 (4.0 in 10th and 11th grade) and 13 APs (if I counted correctly), wouldn’t your weighted GPA be higher than 4.4? Or are some of those APs self studied?
i’m an incoming freshman at carnegie mellon and i’d definitely consider applying here — although the computer science program is only slightly less competitive than any ivy.
i know cs admits this cycle to stanford, uiuc (attending washu bc of oos costs), mit, and uc berkeley (he also got into ucla off the waitlist). generally, the cs admit programs are very much a lottery. my friend going to stanford was only accepted to reach schools (duke, stanford, amherst, and usc). my friend going to mit was only accepted to mit; he was waitlisted at stony brook and bing. i’m not super close with the uiuc guy, but he was attending ohio state until he got off the waitlist at washu.
although i don’t have personal experience applying for cs, i 100% agree with adding more match/targets/safeties to your list. this year i was guilty of only applying to four safeties with the rest of my applications being reaches. i was rejected from one of my safeties and waitlisted at another. luckily, i got into three of my reach schools, but i would’ve felt more secure going into march if i applied to more safeties and matches. but also consider carnegie mellon ed2, it really boosts your chances a lot at a cs program tied with mit.
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