UCLA! Although I do consider the UC system to be slightly better than your average “state school”, I suppose it isn’t fair to ask to have it placed in its own catagory.
I used “snooty” and “religious” at the same time to indicate that the “snootiness” flows from the school’s “religiousness,” if that makes sense.
I used “high-class” to refer to Ivy League and the like schools.
So an Ivy League school like Harvard may be “snooty,” but it’s not religious, so it’s not a “snooty religious school.” It IS, however, high-class, so it’s a “high-class school” AFAIAC.
The college I went to was “snooty and religious,” in the sense that the Dean of Students explained the dress code to me (more than once, FTR) while looking down his nose and holding his Bible. SissieHomie also went to a “snooty religious school,” in the sense that the kids were kind-of uppity compared to their counterparts at a state-school, thanks largely in part to the school’s Presbyterian affiliation. Are Baylor and/or Notre Dame equally sanctimonious? Probably not, but they are strongly religious-affiliated schools, and I’m sure they have behavior standards that differ from those at a state school.
I apologize if I wasn’t clear enough in the poll.
OK, I went with “non-religious/non-elitist” for N’western, on the grounds that I knew a lot of people there that got rejected from more elite schools.
Yeah, I went to UC San Diego. How about a category for high-class state schools? 
Huh. There is a pecking order with state schools. I like to think The University of Texas at Austin is better than Nebraska (maybe that’s a Big XII rivalry thing too).
I think a flagship state school is a different category than a system school. We could go to the Carnegie classification system, but that’s pretty much inside baseball…
So where do you put somewhere like Amherst or Williams? Consistently rated in the top handful of schools in their class, not Ivy League but arguably providing a better education in the liberal arts than somewhere like Harvard where the main emphasis of the institution is not undergraduate education, yet they are “elitist” in the sense of rejecting a high proportion of applicants.
I would call them “selective liberal arts colleges.” Not my poll, though.
Bruin here as well (who’d have guessed? Heh.). A public ivy is at least a different category from other state schools. Some but not all UCs would fit in that category.
Me I did halfsies: lower division at a community college, transferred to UCLA. My bachelor’s degree doesn’t distinguish between commuters and traditional routes.
Yeah, I noticed. I’m at one right now and will graduate in the spring, but it’s difficult to classify in your poll. I put it in “high-class elitist private schools”, though it’s a world apart from the Ivy League.
I chose “state college” too because I went to a state college. The Ohio State University is a very highly-regarded school but it’s still a state school (it’s not my school, I went to Kent State). I think all state schools can be lumped together well enough in a way that they are different from the other choices.
Personally, I’ve never thought that a person needs to qualify their school’s ranking if they “admit” to going to a state school. I’d bet I got a better education in journalism at KSU than I would have at OSU, because that’s what KSU specializes in.
I can proudly admit that UCF was a joke when I went there (it’s now the second most selective state school in Florida). The only reason I applied was that my mother thought community colleges were for stupid people.
I applied to MIT more or less on a lark but didn’t go because I didn’t want to deal with that sort of competition academically. My mistake.
Ah, yes. The hallowed halls of Uc-La. The Universal College of Lowered Aspirations. 
I can kid. I did grad work there.
Really, it’s up to the respondent, but I would go with High-Class school.
Not at all. I went to UVA, which goes on any short list of elite US schools despite the fact that it’s a public school. That’s very different from, say, VCU or other more representative state schools.
Except that there are no such expectations at Notre Dame, apart from taking two theology courses over the course of your 4 years. And while admissions are becoming tighter and tighter these days, it was about as blue collar as an institute of higher education ever could be for most of its history. Without it having been called out in the snooty option, I guess I might have gone with “elite”, based solely on acceptance rate, or “other”. It’s no more religious than Duke is these days.
A State University.
How long a list? It doesn’t make *US News’ *top 20.
Hey man, it was the top school in the country in my field. Not that I still work much in my field…but that isn’t the point!
Plus, as a theatre major, I get to do fucked up things to punctuation with impunity since I can blame it all on having read too many plays and not enough books.
I’m quite proudly K-JD public. McGill & UIUC. And I really don’t think they’re bad schools. I hear McGill has become even more competitive than it was when I got in.
I will say that nearly every MBA I’m applying to is at a private school, though. I remember when I was at a recruiting reception for Local U, quite well-known, the first five questions asked by prospective students related to their funding and the state economy. And I know for a fact that my current boss is more willing to hire low-gpas from “name” schools over high-gpas from 2nd tier schools even when it’s clear that the person is a scholarship student.
Oh, absolutely. And therefore, the flagship of the, let’s say, U. of California system would be the creme de la creme.
go Bears.