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Hi, I'm currently doing a masters in Medieval History in an attempt to make myself a bit more marketable to the PhD programs that I'm interested in (UVA, among others). I've just gotten one of my grades in for this semester for a class that was required but well outside my comfort zone, and it was an A-. In your experiences, how much might an A- on a transcript hurt me, in the grand scheme of things, keeping in mind that I should be presenting at several conferences next year, as well as publishing an article? If all goes according to plan, I should be able to pull out a 3.975 for a final GPA. For other background information, I'm planning on going into historical linguistics and had a 1330 GRE. I'm just a little devastated and frantic right now, so any advice that you could provide would be really helpful.