Waitlist is tough. At a lot of schools, the waitlist is a soft rejection.
Look at the common data set, and it will show you how many kids for each school get off the wait list. It looks like for VT, that number was 0.
https://www.ir.vt.edu/data/cds.html
For RPI, they took 3 kids off the waitlist (out 3,845).
https://provost.rpi.edu/sites/default/files/2018-2019%20Common%20Data%20Set%20Final.pdf
It’s probably a good idea to move on to some other options!