You can just enter the taxable scholarship amount and skip the room and board questions. The education section can get complicated with all the potential variations and you were smart to catch an issue. Any amount not used on qualified education is taxable.
You can really simplify it by having box 1 blank and box 5 the taxable scholarship then skip the rest of the questions for other expenses, room and board, and so. They can all be blank. The education section of the program is just the program asking questions. Your forms being correct are the key.
You can enter income and expenses and work your way through, being careful to not double count the taxable income.
You might be leaving a portion for your parents to claim education expenses and the program was trying to use it. I can't see what you did to know for sure.
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