Deferred Engineering Major, how can I improve chances?

<p>SAT I: 2310
SAT II: 800 Math II, 740 Physics
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.81(Strong upward trend, 3.95 from 10-12th).
School Type : Small private
AP (place score in parenthesis): School doesn't offer AP's, but took AP Calc and AP Stats(5 and 4).
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: Toughest possible, have taken every advanced course offered at my school
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National History day 5th in Nationals, 1st in state, 4th in state(over the course of several years). NMSF, 3rd in local Sonatina Festival for my division. </p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis) : Primary extracurricular featured on my Common app was an independent system I have created over the past 6 months, involves machine learning and computing related to the physical world, Filing for patent, used a portion of it for School Independent Study, showed to Cornell Professors and got helpful feedback from them, am hoping to have it featured in some tech blogs by mid-late January. Founded and organized a TEDx event for my school, featured CEO's, poets, notable local personalities. President and Founder of Code Club, head of tech Committee. National History Day Competitions as I described, Tennis Varsity, Piano for 10 years(Taking ABRSM Level 8 exam).
Job/Work Experience: Internship at local Predictive Analysis Company(Just obtained it). Microsoft mini internship.
Volunteer/Community service: Volunteered, and part of Youth Board, for local Indian Organization for 6 years, 200 + hours. Organized local cultural events.
Essays: Common app about collaborative aspect of me, and supplement about the engineering idea I've already described above and what I want to do with it.
Teacher Recommendation: Pretty good
Counselor Rec: Pretty good.
Additional Rec:
Interview: Hour long question and answer session(from my part), could tell he got really into it. Pretty good. </p>

<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Comp Sci
State (if domestic applicant): Northwest
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Near a million
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Connection with Cornell Faculty? Visited them personally, set up meetings to show them my project, got feedback and support. First generation American college? My dad went to a prestigious British college and my mom went to Indian colleges. </p>

<p>Why do you think I was deferred? And what should i focus on to improve my chances. </p>

<p>Your stats are really good and if the essays you wrote are as good as you claim I would venture to guess that your reccomendations aren’t the best. Maybe try to get teachers that you know well to do your rec? You don’t want a teacher to write just like “this student was very good and always got the best grades.” Possible look over your essays again. From an objective point of view your stats are great so idk.</p>