<p>I live in central Missouri and received an appointment to West Point but never met my MALO...does anyone know who it is for this area? Not that I'm complaining, but it seems odd that I got that far without actually having an interview. For the Naval Academy, I'm very involved with my Blue and Gold Officer and assume it should be the same for West Point.</p>
<p>Same for Spider here in Texas. He has a nomination and a Foundation offer. His MALO has been invisible. On the other hand, his BGO has been very involved and supportive.</p>
<p>I'm in the same situation. My BGO calls me often and asks how I'm doing and updates me on important info, whereas my MALO has called me once to let me know how hard it is to make West Point and has not called since.</p>
<p>We were told last year that if a candidate is even "remotely" being considered as being classified as a recruited athlete the MALO's will be "hands off" because of NCAA rules about how often a school can contact them. Once our daughter just spoke to a coach all contact with the MALO stopped, and she was never even classified as a recruited athlete. In addition, the MALO's may be really stretched in some areas of the country as many of them are finding themselves in a very sandy part of the world.</p>
<p>TMAC, that's the same deal Spider got. We started this process with Spider positive he wanted West Point and Mom (me!) talking up USNA. The tide turned around the holidays. USNA made it clear that they wanted him (BGO calls and visits, blue chip dinner, contact from admissions, early offer of foundation, etc.) With West Point, we had to beg an invitation to the Army/TCU tailgater, when we updated the MALO with new honors and improved SAT scores we got back a terse "candidates from this area usually score higher". Fine. He's being honest. Never heard another word from him.But USNA (just as selective) apparently took a harder look at the whole package Spider had to offer. They made it clear early on that they wanted him. Army offered their prep program too, finally, but by then Spider had changed his perspective. </p>
<p>I found the whole thing curious.</p>
<p>the one thing West Point never did was ******** me. </p>
<p>and for that, I love them</p>
<p>We weren't looking for someone to blow smoke up his butt. Just thought it was odd that USNA stayed in close contact and WP didn't. Assuming that USNA and USMA are equally competitive and looking for the qualities.</p>