Pre-determining student eligibility

Hope someone can help since Adobe apparently doesn't answer questions about their products until you purchase them.

My son, a college student, wants to purchase Lightroom 5 on disc, without a Cloud membership.  Cannot seem to get to that point at Adobe.com; without the membership it seems all that is available is the full-priced version.

He found what he wants online, but we apparently have to order it, open it, put in the product code and check eligibility.  Then, if for some reason he isn't eligible (Adobe won't let you see all the questions they are going to ask until you enter the product code), then he has a totally useless disc since he couldn't return it.

Has anyone found a way to PRE qualify so that you know before you open the package if you're eligible?

Thanks!