Alex Dunphy
Alex is the second child and the most intelligent in the Dunphy household. Like her mother, she’s a perfectionist, but she’s also an overachiever who, at times, puts down others for not being as clever as her. Since she’s capable of running her own life, Claire and Phil tend to focus more heavily on raising their other two kids.
She was devastated when Harvard turned down her application, but she eventually enrolled in Caltech. Alex isn’t the most socially adept person on the planet, mainly preferring to stick her nose in books and keep to herself. At the end of the series, she flies away to Switzerland to be with her professor boyfriend.