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MODELING SCHOOLS - Overpriced, overrated, and ultimately useless to start a modeling career! We have never found a single legitimate modeling school that can back up their modeling claims!

Sometimes, model searches and conventions lead to model schools. Most of these are over priced wastes of time that teach the model very little useful information, if at all. If you think that you need to learn posture and how to walk in a modeling school, we suggest going to a qualified dance instructor and studying dance. You do not have to go to school to be a model, and as far as "runway training" in Florida, go to the pro's in Miami and in New York, as there is no runway market in most of Florida, including Tampa Bay. The Independent Modeling site is the only modeling school that you will ever need, and we are free!

MODEL CONSULTATIONS - Can you trust their advice? How do they make money? Go to the source instead!

This is directly related to MODEL SCOUTING SCAMS and MODEL MANAGEMENT SCAMS, but can also be employed in MODEL SEARCHES AND CONVENTION SCAMS. With a free site like Tampa Bay Modeling with the best information that you need at no charge, what is the point? We've known of so-called model consultants who come to this site to learn from our information so they can sell it back to unsuspecting models. Some of these consultants not only steal from us, but they openly denounce us to those models and badmouth us to cover their tracks. Then we have so-called model consultants who make stuff up, and mislead aspiring models with incorrect and bad advice. In most cases, these model consultants are out to make money by selling information, or they set up the aspiring model to be scammed. You must consider the source and weigh out their qualifications and references when they offer advice, especially if it is "free". Bad advice and wrong information can hurt any career, especially when the models must later unlearn things and lose bad habits that they picked up.

COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL SCHOOL SCAMS - Go to an accredited University instead!


In a related topic which has nothing to do with modeling but has everything to do with models who might get training in a profession after or during their modeling career, be very careful with what college you go to! Any so-called "school" that is licensed as a school is eligible to obtain federally guaranteed student loans, but it does not mean that they are accredited or that their credits will transfer to real Universities. Before signing up for a trade school or college, go to a real University like the University of South Florida, the University of Tampa, The University of Miami, or Florida State University and ASK if the credits of the school that you are interested in will transfer to them. If they tell you "no", don't bother with the school in question! To be worthwhile, all school credits must transfer to reputable Universities! For more, you need to check out EDUCATION SCAMS.

Scams listed here are not limited to models, and different types can be easily combined for new types of scams. If you cannot CLARIFY their intentions and VERIFY their references, go somewhere else to do business. It's professionally responsible to do so and lowers your risk. There are lots of great companies out there, like our advertisers and the companies in our resource sections, who are not scams. You owe it to your career to shop around and be selective.

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