Do you see this at your child's high school? [regarding GPA / SAT scatterplots of college admission / rejection]

That doesn’t seem to be the conclusion so much as that they found that for discrepant students, their stronger measure over predicted college GPA, and their weaker measure under predicted college GPA.

However, for highly selective colleges that require both, having top end measures in both is typically necessary but not sufficient for admission – i.e. discrepant applicants are very unlikely to get admitted.