Ditto for MD. Both the MD and the JD are more demanding than most MA/MS programs, but neither requires the original work that is the essence of the PhD. They’re their own category.
As for me, I’m another of those doctors who can’t prescribe drugs. 
I chose some college/no degree, since I’m still working on it. I first went to college when I was 18 and dropped out toward the end of my first semester. I then went when I was 24-25 and only finished 3 classes before having to leave for surgery. I never went back to that school. I am now about 1/3 through my Associates in Liberal Arts after which I plan to transfer to a 4 year college in January 2012.
My master’s degree is comprised of letters other than MS or MA, but I just took that option to mean “master’s degree” and voted accordingly. (The wife has a doctorate.)
In keeping with the timeline request…
High School '99
B.A. '06
M.A. '09
Both degrees in English.
Would you like fries with that?
BA. Most of an MBA.
I was wondering about this. I was surprised initially by the number of folks that had voted “some college,” but then I realized that a lot of those folks may actually still be IN undergrad.
I, however, am among those who just never finished college. My ADD symptoms, which kept me from ever doing homework, didn’t magically disappear when I started college the way I’d hoped they would (I had some theory that I was just lazy and rebelling against being forced to do homework in high school, and that once I was going to school voluntarily, I’d be a completely different person). After a year of community college, the frustration over the lack of change combined with a full-time job opportunity lured me away.
I don’t have any plans right now to go back. I’ve been pretty fortunate in life to have been successful even without a degree. I wonder if and when that’s going to catch up to me.
The law school I’m going to next year just switched from an “L.L.B.” designation to a “J.D.” one, to sound more American. Would it be a douche move if I used that to call myself “Doctor?” I mean, there’s already pretty flaky PhD programs out there where the graduates call themselves Doctor, right…?
Never even darkened the doorway of my high school!
Graduated 7th, 8th, and 9th grades with a couple hours a day of home tutoring.
CMC fnord!
Didn’t want you to be the only one.
Except for those presently in formal schooling, I’d hope that the high-water mark for most of us would fall into “Other - apprenticeship, self-educated, well-read, etc.”
Just out of idle curiosity, is it considered polite to vote as well as post a reply in Poll threads ? It seems a bit redundant to me but now that you requested a time line:
HS 1984
BS 1988
MS 1990
PhD 1993
Yes, I am old… 
PhD
I am a fully rounded human being with a degree from the university of life, a diploma from the school of hard knocks, and three gold stars from the kindergarten of getting the shit kicked out of me.
I also have a BA and some grad school. How come there’s always a separate category for “some college” but not “some grad school”? Don’t I get credit for dropping out of something?