College students are temporarily absent from home.  I wonder if someone is trying to make the case here that he is not a dependent so that he gets $1,200 and the AOC credit when the parents' income is too high to qualify. 

Apparently he was living in the same house with his parents until they moved out of state.  To stay in school, he had to stay in town.  But if he had failed his exams in December, where would he be?  Living with his parents?  If classes went online in March and he lost his part-time job, where would he be?  Back home, right? Let's not try to reinvent the wheel.