Just a heads-up to the OP to help alleviate confusion, the typical term used with RCI Weeks is "Trading Power" or sometimes abbreviated TPU's (Trading Power...Units?). This keeps it from being confused with RCI Points which operate in a similar fashion as the DVC and its points system (though it's not a one-to-one equivalent points value)
The way that trading into the DVC using RCI Weeks is that it's all determined by how early you start your Ongoing Search. Even though you have the maximum of 64 TPUs, you're not given priority over anyone else that has a deposit worth fewer TPU's if they started their Ongoing Search before you did. It's a first-in-line gets it, as long as they have enough TPUs to "buy" the week at DVC.
The more flexible you can be (in unit size, checkin dates and resort choices) the better your chances of getting a match. If you only give the system a single checkin date at only a few DVC resorts, then you're really gambling with not getting a match at all.
Don't expect a 3-bedroom unit. They almost never get into the RCI system. If you want a 2-bedroom, you'll be most likely to get one at OKW or SSR, as the others have said. If you'd accept a 1-bedroom unit, your chances are higher that you can get it at one of the other resorts.
I've traded into DVC from RCI twice. The first time we got the exact checkin date we needed, and we got a 1-bedroom at the Beach Club Villas. That might've been a bit of a fluke, though, since it was within the first 12 months of DVC swithcing over to the RCI exchange network. I don't recall any of the details of when we started the search and when we matched.
But we also traded into DVC through RCI just last year. We started our Ongoing Search in mid/late January. We needed a two-bedroom unit, would accept any DVC resort, and gave the system a three-week range of check-in dates we'd accept from mid-October through the first weekend of November. (We just wanted to make sure our trip happened during Food & Wine Festival) I think we got a match to our OGS sometime in mid-May, at about the 5 1/2 month mark. It was a 2-bedroom at SSR, with a checkin the Friday of the final week of our date range.
So our match went through with an OGS started 10 months out from the date, giving a three-week acceptable date range. Your OGS was started 9 1/2 months out and seems to be much more restrictive on your dates. You can expect matches to start happening for April in late October, early November, but you also might want to have a backup plan in place in case you don't get what you want.
Edit to add: If you truly want to look into what others are getting for DVC matches compared to when they started their search, I'd suggest checking out the Timeshare Users Group:
http://tugbbs.com/forums/ They have a whole sub-forum dedicated to the DVC.
Perhaps consider their cheap paid membership to get access to the specific Sightings forum that gives more details of what people have seen and matched with.
-Rob
