I messed up my junior and sophomore year gradewise. I have a 3.73 unweighted overall, but my freshmen unweighted gpa was a 3.88, sophomore unweighted gpa was a 3.67, junior unweighted gpa was a 3.44, and first semester senior unweighted gpa is a 3.91. I made a mistake and took some really hard classes my junior year but I have never gotten more than one B each year (I got a lot of B+'s my sophomore and junior year). I took 1.5 honors classes my freshmen year, 2 honors classes my sophomore year, 3 honors classes my junior year, and 6 honors classes my senior year. However, even if I weighted my GPA, from my freshmen to junior year, I have a distinct downward trend. This isn’t because I slacked off but rather my non honors classes were way harder than I expected. I have a pretty good standardized test score (34 for ACT) and I go to a pretty competitive high school so my overall GPA isn’t considered “bad”, but I just don’t know if my GPA is competitive with its downward trend.
Some of the competitive schools I am applying to are Dartmouth, Williams, and Johns Hopkins. I want to major in economics and computer science.
I know that grades aren’t everything but will colleges like these dismiss my application because of my downward trend? Thanks in advance.