The magic of language and labels... we have magnet program lotteries where you pick a 1st 2nd and 3rd choice. Only if there are not enough students in the 1st picks, do the 2nd and 3rd get picked. One of the magnet programs is named "Traditional" and its pool of 1st picks is many times the seats, the stranger sounding "Learning Immersion" feeder to the gifted path often has less 1st picks.

So, with that type of lottery, you could push it even further for self-selection... maybe "Competitive Rigor Prep" vs. "School for Unusual and Asynchronous Learners"