Q. Can I include in the amount of "tuition paid" what the university paid as well as what I paid, or strictly what I paid out of pocket only?
A. Only out of pocket and only out of pocket for qualified expenses (room and board are not qualified expenses for the tuition credit).
What you have is tuition remission or tuition waiver, rather than a scholarship. For tax purposes those are treated differently from scholarships. You could think of it as a price discount. The school has done it correctly by leaving boxes 1 and 5 blank.
