AlexDet

I am a fall 19 applicant(CS major) and I am interested in the same field. Of course UC Berekeley is a dream school, but I don't think it is easy to get in. Personally, I think a CS master program with an orientation in robotics is good for me becuase I want to learn more about robotics before I move on to more serious research. In your case, have you considered some good labs in robotics? Although they may not be interested in deep reinforcement learning, as deep reinforcement learning has a rather small community. You can look for other schools with a professor interested in deep reinforcement learning. The first school comes to my mind is U Mich becuase of Satinder Singh & Honglak Lee. Of course Stanford, CMU and MIT are still good choices. Also you can check out the schools of the list of organizers of NIPS deep reinforcement leanring workshop or DLRL Summer School. What's more, I think it is a good idea to look at CS294-112 of UC Berkeley for inportant papers and pay attention to the school of authors.