@Sgiraldo2025 are you an American citizen or here on a student visa?
if on a student visa, you are not eligible for AOTC.
if your parents (and you) are US citizens, then they are required to file a US tax return, even if there is no income in the US. So it is not logical that just because they live outside the US, therefore they do not file a tax return and therefore they do not claim you. If they are US citizens, they are required to file and it is possible they did in fact claim you.
Further, even if you were eligible for AOTC, it would depend on whether your scholarships are restricted or unrestricted in their use.
The restricted scholarships MUST be netted against the Qualified Educational Expenses (QEE). Once that step occurs, there must be at least $4,000 of QEE remaining for your strategy to work.
From what you have posted, there isn't necessarily enough information to determine whether your strategy would work.
