The idea for Making It Count started in 1987 when company co-founder, Patrick O’Brien (then a Procter & Gamble brand manager) prepared some notes for a discussion with his younger sister on how to succeed in college. These notes would become the outline for his book, Making College Count: A Real World Look at How to Succeed In and After College, first printed in 1996. Since then, the book has been sold in bookstores across the country and has been featured in USA Today, the CBS Morning News, MSNBC and Amazon.com.
By 1998, the concept expanded and our flagship in-school presentation program, Making College Count for high school seniors, was developed by co-founders Brad Baker and Patrick O’Brien. That year, the program was delivered to 50,000 students. Since then, we have developed several additional programs and expanded our reach to more than 20 million students in more than 4,500 high schools and 650 colleges in all 50 states through our package of assembly-style presentations.
Delivered by a roster of skilled presenters from a variety of backgrounds, our programs are highly acclaimed by educators and students alike. In 2007, educators rated all of our programs an average of 9.58 on a 10-point scale for "Value of the Presentation," and a 9.48 for "Effectiveness of the Delivery of the Presentation." Ninety-nine percent of students agreed that other students would benefit from the programs. On average, students rate the programs 8.92 on a 10-point scale for "Value, and 9.05 for "Effectiveness."
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