I'm going to engage in academic snobbery; please indulge me!
Alice's father and her mother's brother are top class scientists.
Alice has got nothing but an Arts degree.
What's worse, Alice can't spell, can't think logically, can't remember her own lies and has no social skills to speak of.
Far from being the smartest person in the room (Wasn't Richard Reed in Fantastic Four "the smartest man alive"?) I would be surprised if she got even an Arts degree on her own efforts.
But I'm a science graduate so what would I know?