Visions on regent had a line of 5 people at 4 am , at 545 am it was more like 20 ppls . But they opened up at 6 am <| sep |> I ' ve been popping tons of stool softener and fiber supplements , and mind kind of smells like our cats ' poop some days , but I tell my husband he ' d better not say anything if he doesn ' t want to wake up from being shanked in his sleep ! <| sep |> 1 Nope . Not unless you are a particularly excellent candidate that the university would want to throw money at . 2 Unless the PhD field itself didn ' t have a clear cut precursor course , you ' d have a hellish time getting on to the course without some background in the field . To take your example , someone who did a music undergrad , and did no psch classes , and has no experience working within psychology , has no chance of getting on to a PhD for it . They would be missing too much core background knowledge , and can provide no evidence to a selection committee that they have any kind of aptitude for the subject . MA programs might be more forgiving , but in general you either need to have taken a vaguely related field with some evidence of experience in your new field , either through classesresearch projectsemployment or if your undergrad field is way off base , you need to be able to show you ' ve done extensive work through additional classesresearch projectsemployment . Simply put , it isn ' t enough to say on an application I know I have no experience in this new field , but it seems super interesting so why not let me take a crack at it ? . You need to show that you have an understanding and an aptitude for the field , and the potential to do well in research in it .