Educational goals are to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks to receive my Bachelors Degree of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, with a concentration in Biomedical.
During my college years, I will be in the Army ROTC so I can commission as a Second Lieutenant after obtaining my college degree. I will further my education to obtain a Doctorate of Medicine (M.D) so that I may achieve my goal job as an Orthopedic Surgeon and help heal others.

Educational goals are to achieve a B.S./M.S. with a major in Physics. Professional goals include research and development on the cutting-edge of space explorations. One aim is to study life on different planets, how to make those areas stable for human life, space systems beyond our own, exobiology, and exosolar planets. The second is to explore the violent events in space such as black holes and supernovae.

My name is Ronald George Carley II, but I go by George. I was born in Conyers, Georgia on February 14, 2005. I moved up to Alaska when I was 4, and I have lived here in Fairbanks ever since. My early childhood was marked by some financial difficulties. My biological father was never in the picture, and my biological mother throughout the year became rather delusional. In second grade I moved three times. We were evicted from our apartment, and we stayed in a house with no electricity, and then we lived in a bus in someone’s front yard. It was the winter of 2012 when we were there. On the morning of December 21st, our propane heater blew up and the bus caught on fire while I was sleeping. I was of course able to get out, but I passed out in the back of the bus trying to open the back door. After that, we moved twice and came to live somewhere in the hills for a few years. I was taken out of public school and home-schooled. It was a pretty ineffective education, as my mom tasked 8-10 year old me with heading my own education, so I didn’t do anything. I can back to public school in 6th grade at North Pole Middle School. I surprisingly did very well considering I didn’t do three grades of school. Throughout middle school and going into high school, I set a standard for myself for academic excellency.
In the summer between 8th and 9th grade, I attended a JROTC summer camp, which was my first exposure to JROTC. It was a Junior Cadet Leadership Camp that was a joint effort of the four JROTC programs in the borough. I was with North Pole High School, which I attended for 9th grade. In the first few weeks of my freshman year, my biological mother left the country, and I was taken into foster care. I would consider this the most momentous event in my life, as it completely turned the course of my life. While it was a struggle to cope with the loss of my mother, I came to find it beneficial as it left me striving even more to make something of myself.
In my freshman year, I joined AFJROTC, and I particularly found interest in the drill team. I was on the 1st year team, and technically on the armed exhibition team, but I never competed with them. I marched in five competitions, and in nearly all of them North Pole came out on top, and the team I was on was an example of a great first-year team. In the state competition, North Pole tied for state champion with Eagle River, a school in Anchorage. The nearly seven months spent training and competing on the drill team was my first real experience with teamwork.
The COVID-19 pandemic affected me much the same as it did many others. It didn’t make a particularly negative impact on my mental health, but it certainly set me back academically. My sophomore year was probably my most academically unsuccessful year. I was in fully virtual e-learning, so I didn’t even have daily Zoom classes. It was considerably harder than I expected to stay on track, but the main issue I had was I lost internet for the entire month of November, and I was given no leeway to make up the missed work. I, fortunately, didn’t fail any classes, but I came very close. I knew after this, I would have to ramp up my academic proficiency for the next two years by maintaining straight As and taking AP classes. In the summer, I was formally adopted by my foster parents.
While I was technically still a student at North Pole, I didn’t live anywhere near the school, so for junior year, I had to transfer to West Valley High School. This was hard for me to deal with initially. I didn’t know anyone at West Valley, and I was still not an incredibly social person, so I feared I would have absolutely no social life. My fears however were quelled pretty quickly. I stayed in JROTC through the transfer, simply a change from Air Force to Marine Corps, and I quickly found friends in the program. This did make my friend group a bit of a narrow slice of the whole student body since now all my friends were in JROTC, but I did slowly build my social network with the rest of the school.
Now I am in my senior year. Things have both gotten better and worse since last year. I have since junior year maintained a GPA of 4.0 or higher. I am now the S-5 activities officer in my unit. It has taken me time to get a hang of the level of leadership, and I still haven’t really gotten it, but I hope to improve. The stress of what comes after high school presses more and more on my psyche. I want to go to college to get a bachelors in civil engineering. I hope to have college mostly paid for through scholarships, so I am trying my best to push myself as much as I can academically to make up for my sophomore year and apply to all the scholarships I can. I want to go to the University of Washington, but I don’t see my chances of getting accepted as very high this year. My main alternative is to go to the University of Alaska Fairbanks for a year and then hopefully be able to transfer to UW then. I want to go through the NROTC program at UW to attain an officer’s commission in the U.S. Marine Corps. So then, the primary scholarship I am trying to obtain is the NROTC scholarship, which will largely deal with the costs of college. I have applied for the scholarship this year, and if I don’t get it I will likely apply again while attending UAF, when I will be even more competitive for the scholarship. In terms of more personal interests, I am an artist and sci-fi writer. I would like to someday be able to publish graphic novels, probably digitally, as a side.