{"id":268,"date":"2026-09-09T14:18:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mineral-exploration\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2026-09-09T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:18:05","slug":"important-information-for-applicants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mineral-exploration\/important-information-for-applicants\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Information for Applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mineral-exploration\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/244\/2026\/09\/Jim-Montana-2018-1600x700.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Important Information for MERM Applicants\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When applying for this program in <a href=\"https:\/\/360.carleton.ca\/urd\/sits.urd\/run\/siw_lgn\">Carleton360<\/a>, please ensure that you declare <strong>full-time status<\/strong>. Students registered as full-time in MERM may take 1, 2, 3 or 4 courses without being registered as part-time. This flexibility applies to this specific program only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exception to the above is that <strong>MERM 5007 and MERM 5008 must be taken concurrently<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All full-time students are automatically enrolled in the <a href=\"https:\/\/gsacarleton.ca\/gsahealthplan\/\">Graduate Students\u2019 Association health plan<\/a>. Students living outside of Canada may request an exemption from the plan. The fee will initially appear on your student account; once the opt-out has been processed, the fee will be refunded by Carleton, generally by the end of the semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students living in Canada may also opt out of the health plan if they have alternate health coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When applying for this program in Carleton360, please ensure that you declare full-time status. Students registered as full-time in MERM may take 1, 2, 3 or 4 courses without being registered as part-time. This flexibility applies to this specific program only. The exception to the above is that MERM 5007 and MERM 5008 must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-268","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mineral-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mineral-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mineral-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mineral-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mineral-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mineral-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mineral-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mineral-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mineral-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}