According to AAMC (the MCAT test maker), there are 14 MCAT test centers in Florida. Most testing centers are located inside a college or university. You can select a testing location that is nearest to you. Please note that you are able to choose a test center when registering for the MCAT.
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Fort Lauderdale – Boca Raton
777 GLADES ROAD
BLDG. SU80, ROOM 211
STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICE BLDG
BOCA RATON, FL 33431
Fort Myers – Metro Parkway
4315 Metro Parkway, Suite 100
Training Options
Fort Myers, FL 33916
Miami – Ft. Lauderdale
5555 Anglers Ave
Suite 22-24
Ft Lauderdale, FL 33312
Gainesville – NW 8th Avenue
4961 NW 8TH AVE
CO-LOCATED W/ SYLVAN LEARNING CTR
GAINESVILLE, FL 32605
Jacksonville – Philips Highway
8081 Philips Highway
Suite 21
Jacksonville, FL 32256
Orlando – Maitland
2301 LUCIEN WAY
STE 150
MAITLAND, FL 32751
Miami – NW 52nd Terrace
8240 NW 52ND TERRACE
SUITE 400 turn left out of elevator
MIAMI, FL 33166
ETS – MIAMI DADE COLLEGE
11380 N.W. 27th Avenue
Miami Dade College North Room 1160
MIAMI, FL 33167
Sarasota – Main Street
1605 main Street
Suite 1100
Sarasota, FL 34236
Tallahassee – Capital Circle NE
2811 Capital Circle NE
Suite #3
TALLAHASSEE, FL 32308
Tampa – S. Hoover Boulevard
204 S. Hoover Blvd
Mariner Square, 2nd Floor SE
TAMPA, FL 33609
Tampa – Temple Terrace
11201 N. 56TH ST
SUITE B
TEMPLE TERRACE, FL 33617
Tampa – S. Hoover Boulevard
204 S. Hoover Blvd.
Mariner Square, 2nd Floor SE
Tampa, FL 33609
West Palm Beach – South Dixie Highway
100 South Dixie Hwy
Suite 100
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Florida state population
More than 18,800,000 people live in the state of Florida (fourth, after California, Texas and New York, in terms of population among US states). The average population density in the state is about 135 people per km 2 (8th place in the USA).
The largest cities in the state of Florida are Jacksonville (more than 820,000 residents, eleventh place in the list of the largest cities in the USA), Miami (about 400,000 residents), Tampa (about 340,000 residents), St. Petersburg (about 250,000 residents), Orlando (about 240,000 residents) and the state capital of Tallahassee (about 180,000 residents).
The largest urban agglomerations in the state of Florida were formed around Miami (about 5,570,000 people, eighth place in the list of US metropolitan areas), Tampa (more than 2,790,000 people, nineteenth place) and Orlando (about 2,140,000 people, twenty-sixth place) and Jacksonville (about 1,350,000 people, fortieth place).
The racial composition of the population of the state of Florida:
- White – 75.0%
- Black (African American) – 16.0%
- Asians – about 2.4%
- Native Americans (Indians or Eskimos of Alaska) – about 0.4%
- Native Hawaiian or Oceanian – about 0.1%
- Other races – about 3.6%
- Two or more races – about 2.04%
- Hispanic or Latino (of any race) – about 22.5%
The number of Florida residents classified as “Hispanic or Latino” increased by more than 57% in the decade between the 2000 and 2010 censuses.
The largest ethnic (national) groups among the population of the state of Florida:
- English – about 17%
- Germans – about 12%
- Irish – about 10%
- Italians – about 6.5%
- Cubans – about 4.5%
- French – about 3%
- Poles – about 2.5%
- Scots – about 2%
For more than a quarter of Florida’s population, their first language is not English. Almost twenty percent of the state’s residents call Spanish as their native language, and about two percent – the Creole dialect of French.
More Cubans live in Florida than anywhere else in the United States. Mostly Cuban communities are concentrated in the Miami and Tampa area. There are also many immigrants from Puerto Rico, Haiti, Nicaragua and other Latin American countries in the state.
The largest population groups in the state of Florida by religion:
- Christians – about 79%, including:
- Protestants – about 48%, including:
- Baptists – about 9%
- Methodists – about 6%
- Pentecostals – about 3%
- Catholics – about 26%
- Orthodox – about 1%
- Jehovah’s Witnesses – about 1%
- Protestants – about 48%, including:
- Jews – about 3%
- Muslims – about 1%
- Atheists – about 16%
By some estimates, more than five percent of Florida’s population is made up of illegal immigrants. The state is considered to be the sixth (after Nevada, Arizona, California, New Jersey and Texas) in the United States in terms of the number of illegal immigrants to the population.
A characteristic feature of Florida is the very large number of elderly people living in the state. This is due to the fact that the warm subtropical climate of Florida attracts wealthy retirees, usually middle class, from other states and even other states.