Who Typically is Awarded Regents and other merit awards at the UCs?

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To @ucbalumnus and others who know…

What stats and other factors would a student typically need to be awarded Regents (or other) merit awards at UCs? And how much are the awards (with need and w/o need)

For top tier UCs:

For mid-tier UCs

For lower-tier UCs

And…how many Regents awards are given by each UC?

Thanks

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One data point: my son got a Regents Scholarship at UC Santa Cruz. He is OOS, 3.93 UW GPA, 1960 SAT (680 M, 670 CR, 610 W), 31 ACT. State-level swimmer (NOT Div I qual), robotics, theater, poetry.

I don’t recall the amount. It was either $40,000 or $20,000 over 4 years. (I think the latter.) We had high need (EFC about $4,500-5,000 - we got a very small Pell that year, haven’t qualified for Pell since, due to rising income).

He also got the “Dean’s Award” which is $20,000 over 4 years for OOS students only.

Though he liked UCSC very much, we could not afford for him to attend, so he went to a “meets full need” private (that he loves).

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Son, 4.41GPA, 2370 SAT, got Regents at Davis for in-state resident.
Full tuition for 4 years and honors housing.

Got another award, I don’t remember if it was Regents, for UCLA, full tuition, fees, and some kind of “engineering housing”. I don’t remember the name or the awards, sorry.

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Despite the name that implies something systemwide, Regents scholarships are run by the campuses, so award amounts vary by campus (listed on web sites). Most are for fixed amounts, but Berkeley is somewhat different and can include OOS tuition coverage for high need OOS Regents scholars. There may be other perks that vary by campus.

The campus web sites just say that they are for top end students at each campus, so it is presumably not as hard to get one at a less selective campus.

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Son- UC GPA 3.73 ACT 31 got Chancellor’s scholarship $5000/year renewable for 4 years at UC Riverside.