<p><a href=“https://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/apply-essay.html[/url]”>https://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/apply-essay.html</a> –> “We seek to understand and appreciate you as an individual. If there is a parent, sibling, other relative, or friend of yours who you think could help us do that, we would be happy to receive a one-page letter from one of them. 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>