Our high school’s AP Stats class was no joke because the teacher covered the AP curriculum in the first semester and then did real calculus based stats the second semester. He was a fabulous teacher, he taught calculus in his pre-calc class too. And my older son got a lot of brownie points for taking Linear Algebra after BC Calc, but the course went at what he considered a glacial pace so he thought it was super easy. All this stuff evens out in the end. Take the APs YOU want to take and can do well in.
Adcoms will not know that this teacher gives out A’s while that teacher is tough. They’ll look at consistency and general rigor.
Roughly speaking, it means having Foreign language up to level 3 or 4 or Ap (depending on the college you’re aiming for), Math up to precalculus or calculus or stats, plus 4 years each of English, Social science, and science. Some permutations are allowed, especially if you’re more advanced in a subject, and senior year you can double up in a subject that obviously interests you and not necessarily take all 5 of the above (your high school may require you to, though). Everything else is a “personal choice”.
Colleges don’t like stockpiling APs and they like to see some kind of coherence between your class choices and your stated goals. Taking a class because it makes sense will be good, even if it’s an “easy” class. But taking an easy AP class just for the sake of having one more won’t help at the most selective colleges. And definitely colleges won’t care if you use school-based definitions of “easy” and “hard”.