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Brainy Florham Park Triplets Earn Mensa Status

9-year-olds Victoria, Elizabeth and Katie Wilson bring their high IQs to the town their dad grew up.

Three 9-year-old Florham Park triplets have been accepted into Mensa, the worldwide organization for people with high IQs, the Associated Press reported via NJ.com.

Victoria, Elizabeth and Katie Wilson won acceptance in the group the stipulated way, by scoring in the top 2 percent of the group's highly challenging IQ test. Presently, the organization boasts members between the ages of two and 102. 

"To me, that means they're academically gifted in the areas of language arts, math, their ability levels in the schools," Dr. Steven Caponegro, principal of Brooklake Elementary School, told AP. "They have that much more potential."

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The name of the school the girls will attend was not released.

Florham Park native Jeffrey Wilson, the girls' father, told ABC News that he recently moved his family back home from Florida because he believed the area would give his daughters greater access to quality schools. 

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