| Well, have you cancelled the deposit fee at Villanova first? Unless I'm mistaken, you're not supposed to send deposit fee to any more than one university, because doing so really messed up the waiting list system and so on (imagine everyone paying deposit to every university, then there won't be any waiting list). Once the universities realize that you sent deposit fee to multiple places without contacting them first, they may cancel their offer of acceptance.
As for the waiting list question, my friend is considering waiting list for Cornell but paid deposit to BU. She said that she sent the deposit fee with no regret to waste the deposit fee, as it's not refundable. If you get into Emory, then just consider that deposit fee as a price to get into that university (if you get what i mean) to make yourself feel better. | 
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