DO NOT listen to the financial aid people at schools about doing YOUR taxes with an eye to making HER an independent student which makes her eligible for more government largesse in the form of grants and loans.
Taking their advice, I didn’t count my son as a dependent his last two years of high school. It made zero difference as far as his status once he actually enrolled at UT, but deprived me of th deduction I was entitled to.
And... congratulations to your daughter.
