Also a MAJOR FYI for the white coat ceremony: unless they change it, each person is only allotted two tickets to the ceremony. This was a big issue for my class because the school failed to mention this to anybody until there was about a month left before the ceremony, so a number of my classmates had relatives travel here (since most airlines aren't fond of refunding tickets) only to not be able to attend the ceremony while others had to decide which relatives could attend and couldn't attend. There were only a few students who received more than the two tickets because there was a lottery amongst the DO students over unwanted tickets (of which there weren't many). In case you're wondering why you only get two tickets, it's because the DOs and every other program with some clinical aspect (pretty much every program on campus except for the SMP) share the same white coat ceremony. Also because of this, they pretty much do a rapid-fire presentation of the ceremony where you have the dental program in one section of the auditorium, DOs in another, pharm in another, and other programs in another and they basically have dental read a name + coat the person, DO read two names + coat two people, etc. and keep doing that until every name has been read. So, you can imagine the ceremonial-nature of something like this in which the aim is to get through 800+ names in about 1.5 hours.
Certainly this might have changed due to the complaints made by my class and you can email Dr. Speicher to see if it has or has not. I only tell y'all all of this because I want to make sure your class isn't subjected to the same issues my class experienced, and the earlier the warning the wider it spreads.