No. It is not a "choice". If your child CAN be claimed as a dependent (even if you choose not to claim him), then he is required to say on his own tax return that he can be claimed.
In most situations, a full-time college student under the age of 24 can still be claimed as a qualified child dependent on the parents' tax return. The person who claims the dependent gets the education credits.
He can file his own tax return in order to seek a refund of tax withheld from his paychecks, but in My Info he has to say that he can be claimed as someone else's dependent.
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