Your child may be considered to be your Qualifying Child, and you may be able to claim your him or her as a dependent if he/she:
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does not provide more than half of his or her own support.
The last item is important, because you don't have to provide more than half the support, but the student can not have supported himself/herself.
See this
link for more information, including Worksheet 3-1 for determining support.
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