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Education
You are confusing the requirements of IRS Publication 17 and IRS Publication 970. People screw this up (as I have in the past)
To qualify as a dependent, there is no "time" requirement or even a requirement that the student be full time. Those requirements only come into effect when it comes to claiming the educational credits covered in IRS Publication 970 at https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p970.pdf. Based on what I read in IRS Publication 970 page 22, left column where it reads:
You are a full-time student for 2018 if during any part of any 5 calendar months during the year you were enrolled as a full-time student at an eligible educational institution (defined earlier), or took a full-time, on-farm training course given by such an institution or by a state, county, or local government agency.
So if you graduated college on May 1, you get to count the entire month of May and qualify as a full time student. However, if you graduated on April 30, you are not a full time student. However........
If you graduated high school in April and started college on Dec 1st of that same year, then YES, you are a full time student. There is no requirement that the 5 months be consecutive. It's only required that the 5 months be in the same calendar year.