<p>Hi there! I'm just trying to find out what the email address is where the peer recommendation should be emailed to? Thanks!</p>
<p>Bump does anyone know the answer???</p>
<p>Help us please!!!</p>
<p>The instructions say “mailed”, not “emailed”…print it out and send it to the Duke Admissions Office.</p>
<p>I know it’s probably to late to help the OP, but maybe it will help someone else: </p>
<p>"If a personal recommendation letter is submitted by email, the body of the message should include the student’s full name, date of birth, and current high school as well as the content of the letter. For security reasons, we do not open email attachments</p>
<p>Email: undergrad-admissions @ duke. edu"</p>
<p>THANK YOU! 
That was most helpful! I’m writing one for my friend and we were confused.</p>
<p>Sorry, I know it seems silly for me a Duke ED applicant to ask this, but does Duke ever ask for a peer evaluation? I thought that was the thing that Dartmouth required.</p>
<p>well, after more than a week and there is no reply on this post? I know my question is stupid but I really want to know.</p>
<p>Duke doesn’t require it. It’s supplemental material. Didn’t you apply ED? Didn’t you read the common app supplement for Duke?</p>
<p>Here are the specific words, btw:</p>
<p>“We seek to understand and appreciate you as an individual. If there is a parent, sibling, other relative, or friend who you think could help us do that, we would be happy to receive a one-page letter from one of them. (It must be mailed to our office by January 2, 2013.) This optional information will be considered in our understanding of you as a person, but will not be formally evaluated as part of your application.”</p>
<p>Yeah, there are way too many ways to game the system with peer recs. Imagine if everyone’s parents started sending in letters.</p>
<p>That’s why you get a friend or co-worker to write it. Everyone’s parents will praise them for being a good child and hard worker and loving person, but friends can write how you have grown and how you act in the class and on your team or in your club.</p>
<p>True, but still has some caveats, which is why it isn’t actually evaluated as part of the app. Of course I’m not a college counselor and don’t pretend to be one. I just don’t get the concept as a whole, I suppose. It seems like it could be mixed into the interview process in some way. I think they should do away with anything optional and just take a stance on certain documents. I also feel as though someone who is sending in a peer rec. still feels like he or she has something to “prove” that isn’t fully embodied in the application. This is on a case by case basis, of course, and I don’t want to say whether it’s advantageous or disadvantageous to do it, because I quite honestly haven’t made up my mind about it…</p>