I am a college student and plan to get married. So far I have earned 3 scholarships but family members have told me that if I get married, they’ll take away my scholarships. Is this true?
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I have never heard such a thing, it sounds very unlikely, but you would need to check the conditions of the scholarships.
Also, is there any reason to get married before you graduate? Are you trying to chance your dependency in hopes of getting more aid?
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but family members have told me that if I get married, they’ll take away my scholarships.
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What knowledge do these family members have about those scholarships? Why would they say that?
It must be a very special scholarship that given only to single. 
It sounds a little bit like they’re assuming that when calculating financial aid, they’ll begin accounting for your spouse’s income and lower grants/only offer loans/change subsidized loans to unsubsidized. However, I don’t see how that would affect scholarships(unless they’re need based, but still seems unlikely), or affect anything until you enter your spouse’s income in next year’s taxes/FAFSA.
You can always contact the scholarship sponsor to see whether marital status matters during scholarship distributions, just to make sure you’re covered, though.
There could be reasons a scholarship (or do they mean FA) would change with a change in status. I can see Miss America or a number of church based scholarships requiring the recipient be single. Of course the military academies require the cadets to be single and if you marry you lose your scholarship.
Do the relatives of the OP mean financial need based aid? If you applied as a dependent and you become independent, I think there is a chance your aid may change as you’d be using the information of the spouse and not the family anymore. It’s possible the new spouse is wealthier than the OP’s family.
You just have to check with the source of the scholarhsips and the school to see what a status change does to your scholarships and FA.