You can get the AOC a total of four times for undergraduate education. So, depending on whether you used it during any of those previous years, you might still be able to use it now. But if you were a dependent on anyone else's tax return and the credit was used for you---those times "count" toward the total of four---so check with your parents if you were claimed then.
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