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>But she mentioned how Rika must have been acting and said she wanted her to drop the facade.
No, she talks about making Rika remember her true self. My point is that there's no space for this true self she wants (running and playing around) in St.Lucia.

>Of course there is, Mei shows just that when Rika chooses to stay with Satoko. Ultimately, St Lucia is just a school, what matters is getting good grades.
Mei frames St.Lucia as a means to an end (becoming someone with power and influence like Takano), so you get Rika even complaining about how stiff the academy is, and annoyed at how it seems like a bride factory, but going along with it because she believes it's necessary for the future she wants. That's actually a very different take from both manga and anime, where she's shown actually enjoying the high society stuff for its own sake (although in the manga she kind of seems to sour on it once Satoko yells at her about how Rika just wanted to be a princess all along).

>Neither am I, she said that the effort she needed for the entrance exam isn't enough to keep up constant good grades
The teacher mentions how her grades had been falling since she entered in the academy and then Satoko goes on about how hard the entrance exams were and how she wanted even harder now. She never talks about studying for the previous exams, just the future ones after the teacher goes talk with her. And the falling grades comment (rather than her grades just being low from the start) also support the idea she just wasn't studying after the entrance.