GMTplus7, that’s a lot of visiting. My child is perfectly capable of packing her own things at the end of the year. She going back next week alone too. I visited her for spring break to see her play, and Thanksgiving she went home with a friend because it is too short a time period. If you want to spend $10,000 per year, that’s fine but certainly a school is not going to put an outlier figure like that in a COA for travel.
My daughter’s school uses $4200 for COA, but it is $1200 for books, $3000 for misc. Just a guess, with nice round numbers I think.