Will these scores help or hurt me?

Agree, adcoms are not looking at percentiles. I’ve never before seen so many threads referring to percentiles as in this season.

In fact, the Math2 meets a target base for subject tests at P. In contrast, the 700 would be lower.

How all this affects you depends on the rest. Eg, if you want a humanities major, sorry, the 700 is low, in terms of the competition. But as ski points out, there’s so much more they look at.