Sorry for not replying earlier. Where in the laws/publications are you seeing that scholarships are counted as third party support? In Pub. 501 it explicitly states to not count scholarships received in total support, and the relevant test is whether the student provides more than half of their total support. (Thus, scholarships are not counted as provided by the student, i.e. the numerator, but are also not counted in the denominator of total support, in my reading.)
