<p>I mean, you can be forgiven for grade aberrations as long as you give a satisfactory explanation of your special circumstances. If the rest of your transcript is consistently A’s, then the adcom can assume that you would have gotten A’s in those classes under normal conditions and will treat your application as though you did get A’s. Otherwise, I don’t think it’ll really “boost” your application to have those special circumstances, if that’s what you mean.</p>