<p>Transfer aid is harder to come by, but that relates primarily to merit-based aid. That is to say, they use merit aid to entice higher-stat freshmen to attend a certain school. Since you won’t likely be in that situation anyway, doing a couple years at a community college and then transferring can save buckets of money. Just make you son is talking to an advisor to help him maximize transferable credits and getting his distribution requirements completed while at the cc.</p>