Are your parents married? Do you have any GUESS for roughly how much income they had?
Your last comment about your parents seems to imply that you may have absolutely PERMANENTLY moved out of their home. Does that seem correct for 2017 (the year in question)? If so, they can NOT claim you as a dependent, which reduces your 2017 taxes even more.
As for how to make $2000 more of your scholarship taxable, that is just some manipulating of the numbers on the tax return (a legal 'loophole').
