How accurate is the "other costs" component of COA?

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We easily spend over 10k per kid per year just for travel to school.
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Really? Are you abroad? How often do they fly home?

I know that my sister complained about travel costs from Calif to Boston and from Calif to the south for her two kids, but I know she wasn’t spending that much per kid. Christmas and Thanksgiving were the pricey times.