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student[j].first_name = malloc(sizeof(char) * MAX_CHARS_IN_NAME);
student[j].last_name = malloc(sizeof(char) * MAX_CHARS_IN_NAME);


is worse than this

Then do what we all do - get out a pencil and paper and diagram your data objects so can see what you have and/or what you want to have.

You don't "need" pointers, you could just as viably have...

Why do you think you can treat student as an array of structs


fscanf(ifp, "%s", student[j].first_name);

when you pointed it to an allocation for a single struct?


person *student =...