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Not if your credit hours were always below full-time status at your school. Your parents would be able to claim you while your are a college student if the following applies:

• You are between the ages of 19 and 24,

• You are a full time student for 2016

• To be a student, they must be, during some part of each of any 5 calendar months of the year:

• A full-time student at a school that has a regular teaching staff, course of study, and a regularly enrolled student body at the school, or

• A student taking a full-time, on-farm training course given by a school described in (1), or by a state, county, or local government agency.

• The 5 calendar months don't have to be consecutive.

• You did not provide more than half of her own support.

• This test is different from the support test to be a qualifying relative, which is described later. However, to see what is or isn't support, see Support Test (To Be a Qualifying Relative) , later. If you aren't sure whether a child provided more than half of his or her own support, you may find Worksheet 2 helpful.

• You did not file a joint tax return.

• An exception to the joint return test applies if your child and his or her spouse file a joint return only to claim a refund of income tax withheld or estimated tax paid.

Since (it seems that) you were not a full time student, your parents would only be able to claim you as a dependent under the qualifying relative dependent rules. Your income (dependent’s income is limited to 4,050 dollars) is too high for you to qualify as anyone’s dependent under these rules.