It depends on if she lived with you after she graduated in May. Living with you for 2025 depends on how many months she lived with you total for the year. As you go through the personal info questions, it will ask you how many months she lived with you.
For the 5 months that she was in college, if her primary home was still your home, she would count as living with you for those 5 months as this is considered by the IRS to be a temporary absence.
If she moved out right after graduation and found her own place, then she would not qualify as your dependent as she would not have lived with you for more than 6 months of the year.
In order to qualify as your dependent the following would need to apply:
The following criteria must be met to claim someone as a qualifying child:
- Your child (including adopted and foster children), your sibling, or a descendent of any of them.
- Age 18 or younger at the end of the tax year OR under 24 (and younger than you and your spouse) if they are a full-time student or any age if they are totally and permanently disabled
- Lived with you for more than 6 months during the tax year
- They did not provide more than half of their own support (social security does not count)
- They did not file a joint return, unless it was to claim a refund
To claim someone as a Qualifying Relative, they must be:
- Your child ( including step children, adoptive children and foster children) or a descendent of them
- Your sibling (including half siblings) or a child of your sibling or a sibling-in-law
- Your parent or grandparents, including step parents and in laws
- Any other person that lived with you for the entire tax year
- Not a qualifying child of another taxpayer
- Someone that you provided over half of their support for during the tax year
- Has less than $5,200 in income (not counting social security)
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