You can’t currently make mandatory profile information (such as name, email, phone number, and address) optional.
You’re also unable to make optional profile items mandatory.
When you download applications, you have the option to redact mandatory profile information if you don’t wish to view it while selecting winners.
Here's the list of Mandatory/Required Profile Information you can choose to collect:
Full name
Email address
Phone number
Residential address
School name
Gender
GPA
Skills/Interests
Target college list
Intended academic major
Intended degree
Intended College enrollment status
Career interests
Household income
Ethnicity
US legal status (e.g. citizen, permanent resident, DACA)
Religion
Sexual orientation
Disability/illness
Parent info (including names, emails employment, marital status, and veteran status)
Household size & Number of siblings in college
First generation? (Have the students' parents completed college before, or is the student first-gen?)
Here's the list of Recommended Profile Information you can choose from:
SAT/ACT scores
Extracurriculars/Clubs
Sports
Work experience
Honors / Awards
If you really need students to supply information about a Recommended item, just make sure to ask it as a question on the application.
For example, if you need students to supply their sports information, ask students to submit their sports info in response to an application question:
