Need to change my primary email adress...

I needed to create a new email address that I can use to apply to colleges this fall because my email address needs to be more official-sounding (I made it when i was twelve). At first I thought that my email address and apple ID were the same thing so when I discovered that this is not the case, I decided to create a whole new iCloud account in favor of the new email address that comes with it. Following the guidance of apple support I logged out of iCloud, find my friends/iPhone, iTunes, app store, etc. In doing this I deleted my iCloud information from my phone (not the cloud itself). I then created the new iCloud email address on the phone. When I went to change my email address connected to my Apple ID, however, I discovered that there was no "edit" button to allow me to change my primary email address. What would be my best course of action to have a new iCloud email address without losing all of the information stored on my old iCloud account? Is the a way to only change the words in front of the @ symbol in my icloud.com email address? This is all very confusing. I appreciate your responses.
Cheers

Yes. 1. Log in to your PayPal account and go to your Profile > Profile and settings section 2. In your Info section there is an Email section - click the Update link in the Email section 3. In there you'll see that you can have up to 8 email addresses associated with the account. Click "Add" and add the new email address to your list and then select it and click "Confirm".  That will send you a confirmation email with a link to click to confirm the address. 4. Now you can go back to the list, select the new address, and click "Make Primary".

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    Hi Lior, 
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    It sounds like you need to change the primary email address associated with your Apple ID. 
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