In the hypercompetitive college admissions environment, the applications for getting into a university are hard enough. Applying for money to pay for it should be simpler. But the application for federal financial aid contained more than 100 questions, which many students found daunting.

Barack Obama promised to fix this during the campaign by introducing a new, simplified Free Application for Federal Student Aid, more often called simply the FASFA. Every college student who wants some of the billions available in federal loans or grants each year needs to fill it out to see how much he or she is eligible for. About 20 million students -- or their parents -- fill out the form each year.

The new, simplified form debuted this month. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Jill Biden, a college professor and the wife of the vice president, promoted it at a Washington, D.C., high school. The new version doesn't dramatically cut back on the number of questions, but it eliminates 22 of them, according to the United States Students Association. It also doesn't require low-income students to answer questions that don't impact their eligibility, and makes the online format more user-friendly by skipping questions based on previous answers.

But this isn't yet a Promise Kept. Obama didn't just promise to simplify the form, he promised to enable "families to apply simply by checking a box on their tax form, authorizing their tax information to be used, and eliminating the need for a separate application." That larger goal hasn't been accomplished yet, so we're keeping this promise rated In the Works.