Anonymous wrote:All the elite NYC prep schools are high pressure and status conscience a lot more than DC. In no particular order:
Spence, Chapin, Brearley, Nightengale-Bamford (all girls)
Collegiate, Browning (all boys)
Trinity, Horace Mann, Fieldston, Dalton (coed)
Also, all very difficult to get in. Don't know anything about Maret so can't say which school is most alike, but out of these Brearley, Collegiate, Trinity and Horace Mann send more kids to Ivy or equivalent than most private schools anywhere and are known pressure cookers probably not what you are looking for.
Tuition for these schools currently avg ~43K+ for K-12. Something else that's different in NYC compared to DC.