Common app additional info section?

<p>sorry if this has been brought up before, BUT how should the information in this section be structured...should it be formal or can it just be a list...
an example would be of an illness in the family...how should i write it?
would saying " My () has been ill for the past year, which has done...etc
I hope you take this into consideration"
followed by other unrelated issues, such as transfer probs, etc</p>

<p>thanks for your help!</p>

<p>anyone, please?</p>

<p>…bump???</p>