[citation needed] He earned scholarship offers from Clemson, South Carolina, Auburn, Ole Miss, Duke, Georgia Tech and several other schools in the southeast.
[citation needed] Harper committed to Tommy Bowden and Clemson University the summer before his senior year of high school.
Harper earned numerous awards throughout spring training and pushed for starting time in his sophomore season.
Upon conclusion of his playing career, Harper went back to obtain an MBA at Clemson and went to work as a medical sales associate at Orthovita.
Realizing that he wanted to be the one helping patients, Harper attended dental school at the Medical University of South Carolina.
[3] In July 2020, Harper began his Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residency at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, TN.