Are you a medical student or a dental student? I have a friends that are currently in the dental progam at uthscsa and they have said that there is no dress code for us dental students.
In fact, I just texted one my friends who is a DS1 at SA. And I asked him is there a dress code or can we wear whatever we want to class? His response: "that is correct...no boobs showing though"
Secondly, SA doesn't do a white coat ceremony for dental students. So, we wouldn't have a white coat to wear to begin with, unless they required us to buy one. But, they do give us embroidered scrubs; no white coat though.