Honors Lang and Lit with AP Prep or AP Lang and Lit

My school offers 3 English classes for English 3 and English 4 ( Lang and Lit). My school has a different name for honors classes but they are equivalent. The classes are normal English 3 and English 4, Honors English 3 plus AP prep and English 4 plus AP prep, and AP English 3 and AP English 4. The English honors classes with AP prep are harder than the AP ones ( I know, it doesn’t make sense). I am aiming to get in to very selective colleges, so I signed up to take Honors English 3 with AP prep because it is a harder class, and colleges like when kids take harder classes. Students usually take the same type of English class ( for example, if I took AP English 3, I would probably take AP English 4). I am worried that colleges won’t know that the Honors English classes are harder, and might not even consider them an AP, which will hurt my application. I’m not sure if I should switch to AP English or not. What do you think I should do?