Waitlist at Columbia + question about Cornell

<p>How likely is it to get off the waitlist for Columbia (Engineering school)? And does anyone know whether Columbia just waitlists everyone and then rejects like 99% of them or do they actually take their waitlistees seriously as potential candidates?? Oh and any advice on how best to get off the waitlist would be much appreciated 8D</p>

<p>2nd issue: I received an email today from Cornell saying that it extended its application deadline for some students. Do a lot of people get this email? because my friend received it too. I'm debating whether or not to apply because our school puts a cap on how many private colleges we can apply to (6 is the max) b/c they dont want to have to send out too many ssr's or something so I had to cut some colleges from my list. But currently I'm trying to decide between UCBerkeley (CLS), Northwestern (Engineering), and NYU (Business/probably Finance). Do you think potentially adding Cornell to teh decision pool will help at all / is Cornell a better choice than these 3? O And I'm probably going to major in something business related, but I don't want to limit my options only to business in case I change my mind.</p>