Originally Posted by
zanfarroway
It is actually a Delta requirement. The 'Delta Air Lines Pilot Recruiting' page on facebook has a post talking about this.
"We’d like for everyone to list all of their civilian pilot certificates and ratings, except for type ratings, as professional development courses in the education section of AirlineApps. (...) These instructions are not included in the AirlineApps instructions for the since this is a Delta requirement and the education section of the application is generic to all airlines."
If I read his post correctly and "tho rating" is "type rating," the instructions you posted contradict that.