Tuazeee

The interviews are next week. I would suggest you email the grad program coordinator if you have any questions.

Research experience is preferred, but not mandatory. Your stats are very good and will be competitive with other applicants. Remember that its mostly about your Statement of Purpose and Letter of Recommendations. I'm not exactly sure you can say that Americans and Asian students have more research experience. I guess you can assume that since these two categories are the majority of the demographics of American college.

It's always dependent on the institution. You have to ask the school/department graduate advisor directly. So far, most of them has said GRE scores doesn't matter for engineers and a lot of schools are getting rid of this requirement. However, some has said the admissions board set a baseline where they filter out applications that don't meet those standards (most like 150/150/3 or lower). This is typically schools that receive higher than average applications like MIT, Yale, etc. Your scores looks good enough. The two most important thing is your Statement of Purpose and the Letters of Recommendation.

Georgia Tech sent me a letter back in December because of their rolling admissions process. I applied for the Bioengineering interdisciplinary program and the Chemical Engineering department was the one that reviewed my application. They sent me an email on a Friday and I had a congratulatory phone call the following Monday.

Here's some more data: Georgia Tech Bioengineering sent me an early offer (mid Dec. 2019) and has invited me to a recruiting event March 5. University of Michigan Biomedical Enigneering sent out invites for interviews dated Jan. 10. The event is Feb. 6. Nothing from NC State/UNC Chapel Hill yet.