Is a one sentence response bad for the Intellectual Vitality essay?

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50% of his/her scores are 5s. Obviously that’s better than the average, but if you’re talking HYPS applicants, a large number of them probably have 6+ scores of all 5s. And his/her results at HYPS shouldn’t be too much of a surprise, just look at the Yale or Stanford SCEA threads and you’ll see how high caliber the rejected applicants are.</p>