u/michaelnovati replied ·
My personal opinions for dealing with any ISA. You likely have to pay them regardless of the source of income. Most recent ISAs (past 3-4 years) have been structured as a loan for the upfront cost that you have to pay back to the ISA provider.
ILLUSTRATIVE NUMBERS FOR EXAMPLE PURPOSES ONLY. So you took out a loan for like $15K or whatever from Stride to pay for Hack Reactor and you owe back $15K + an effective interest rate to cap out at say $20K. Your loan with Stride is governed by your contract with Stride.
So TLDR - you should be expecting to pay it and there's not much Stride can do about the loan terms.
You can try to get a partial refund from Hack Reactor to credit towards the loan and that might be an angle to talk to them about, but I would guess it's unlikely. Someone said the most recent cohort there had 2 students and I doubt they are in the mood to refund you unless contractually obligated.