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Is the student your child?  Is it letting you claim them as a dependent?  You may have answered a question wrong.

If your child was away at college, count the number of months away as having lived with you.  The correct answer to claim the person is to say "the whole year". This will indicate you supported the person the whole year, thus it will be entered on your return correctly showing up as a dependent.  

Or the one that says did your CHILD pay more than half of their support.  It's not asking if you did.