No its not actually. The money you pay is for workshops and the photographers. They have to be paid somehow for their flights and stay not to mention for their work. Which results in your comp cards etc. And thats what the $$ goes to not to the agency. You can't expect to know what to do without proper training. Actors pay for acting classes for a reason, same with modeling. The industry is cut throat and when S2 sends out a model they are representing that agency and more importantly stephanie and her name. Which is BEYOND legit btw as are the pple who run the workshops. If you were a business man running a company would you hire someone who has no college experience to go out and an try to sell your product that had your name attached to it? I don't think so, why? Bc you run the risk of them making a complete fool out of you and your company. So why would the agency send out a model, that the client is expecting to be a PROFESSIONAL, and he/she gets there and is far from that-the agency looks stupid and gets a bad rap. Nothing in this world is free, you have to spend $ to make $. When you get training and your comp cards you get work. Its that simple. So NO wilhelmina S2 is NOT a scam.