I'm hoping this post is dispositive of this issue for most. Basically, in the online version at least, TT changed how they handle it this year. They should not be asking the $5050 question for a bona fide child. For whatever reason, they are, and when you select "yes", it increases your tax liability. However on one of the very next screens, it asks for "uncommon" situations. Included in there is that your kid is a full time student. Select that and then your liability returns to what it was before.
Don't know why they changed it up this year or why having a kid in college is now an uncommon tax situation. In fairness, most of us didn't read the screens closely enough. In our defense, they completely changed how they handled it this year.
