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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: If Affirmative Action's purpose is to help minorities out of the poverty cycle then we should give less support to those who study something that has a lower chance of making money.
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The highest paying majors tend to be the most math heavy, which is hard for pretty much everyone much less someone from a disadvantaged background who comes in not knowing even single variable calculus (which I've seen first hand). 

By further putting pressure to go into these difficult majors one has the chance to amplify the mismatch effect (Google it). It takes the students at the margin of switching into a more rigorous discipline but don't because they doubt their academic background or interest level. These students now go into the more rigorous discipline. 

Put another way think of it from the perspective of no affirmative action. You give more money to students in the harder (and more than likely higher earning) majors. Take it to the extreme and consider all high earning majors being paid for in full by a third party. This leads to tons of people going into these majors because they're free. Most will simply not be able to finish unless they have a strong math background and are good at it. End result is a ton of wasted resources. 

Of course it also might not make any difference whatsoever because students don't tend to choose a major with a large weighting on future expected earnings. In this case it's just another subsidy.

Anyway the point is that the effect is ambiguous at best. It would probably cause a larger portion of minorities to go into these majors at the cost of a higher drop out rate. Expected graduate earnings could go either way but the standard deviation of earnings would almost certainly increase.