According to AAMC (the MCAT test maker), there are 7 MCAT test centers in Louisiana. 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.
- DigoPaul: Geographical meanings of state Louisiana. Covers dictionary definition and location map of Louisiana.
Alexandria, LA
Louisiana State University at Alexandria
8100 Highway 71 South
Alexandria, LA 71302
ETS – LOUISIANA STATE UNIV.
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
137 HIMES HALL/ MSMT. AND EVAL. CTR
BATON ROUGE, LA 70803
Baton Rouge – S. Sherwood Forest Boulevard
4354 S SHERWOOD FOREST BLVD
SUITE D-220
BATON ROUGE, LA 70816
Shreveport – Bossier City
4350 VIKING DR, STE 3
CO-LOCATED W/ SYLVAN LEARNING CTR
BOSSIER CITY, LA 71111
Lake Charles – Delta Tech
Delta Tech
517 Broad Street
Lake Charles, LA 70601
New Orleans – Metairie
2424 EDENBORN AVE
METAIRIE CTR, STE 190
METAIRIE, LA 70001-6476
ETS – UNIV OF NEW ORLEANS
2000 LAKESHORE DRIVE
ROOM 216 MILNEBURG HALL
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70148
Louisiana History
The French (R. R. Cavelier de La Salle 1682) explored and claimed the entire Mississippi river basin discovered by the Spaniards under H. de Soto (1539–42) under the name Louisiana, founded the first permanent settlement in 1699 and New Orleans in 1718. 1717–31 owned by the Compagnie d’Occident and then crown colony, Louisiana was part of the great French attempt in the middle of the 18th century to block the expansion of the British Atlantic colonies to the west, but this failed in the Seven Years’ War. In 1762/63 France ceded the area west of the Mississippi with New Orleans to Spain, that east of the river to England, from where it passed to the USA in 1783. Napoleon I. bought back the Spanish share in the Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1800 and sold it in 1803 for US $ 15 million to the USA (Louisiana Purchase), which more than doubled their area (the borders to the west remained disputed). The southern part was organized as a territory in 1804 and on April 30, 1812, became the 18th state to join the Union; in the remaining parts territories and states only gradually emerged. As a hub for Mississippi and sea shipping, New Orleans quickly rose to become the leading trading center in the South. In the American Civil War, Louisiana joined the Confederation, but came under Union control in 1862 (capture of New Orleans). Louisiana remained a state with strong social and racial tensions, which among other things. the rule of H. P. Long (Governor 1928-31) made possible.
After Second World War
The second wave of the “Great Migration” took place in the forties and fifties of the XX century, when many residents of the “Pelican State” moved to the rapidly developing California. Only towards the end of the sixties, as a result of a stubborn struggle for civil rights in Louisiana, laws providing for racial segregation were repealed.
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina, one of the worst natural disasters in US history, hit the Louisiana coast near New Orleans. Despite the fact that a large-scale evacuation of the population was carried out the day before, more than a hundred thousand people remained in the city, mostly residents of poor areas. Due to showers and strong winds, the speed of which exceeded 200 km / h, the water began to overflow through the protective dams and later destroyed them. About 80% of the city area was flooded, and the water level in some places exceeded 4.5 meters. People fled the flood on the roofs of houses, about thirty thousand people took refuge in the giant indoor stadium “Superdome”.
The consequences of Katrina for Louisiana were terrible: 1,464 people died, tens of thousands of homes, roads and bridges were destroyed, almost a million residents of the state were left without electricity for several days. In addition, “Katrina” dealt a severe blow to the economy of Louisiana, the material damage from the hurricane exceeded one hundred billion dollars.