Yes, there's already two easy explanations:
1)You undertake the N7 training before/during the project. Like its even part of our gameplay. We're the next gen of N7 out in Andromeda, and we're not 'established' even within the 'Alliance' yet.
2)You have undertaken the N7 training but you just haven't had Shepard's reputation of the Blitz/Akuze/Torfan (a form of Blitz is made canon for all Shepards) before joining the Normandy. So you're a 'fresh' N7, who hasn't been tested as one, only tested to become one. The higher proficiencies may seem to require field missions, but that could be figured out some way.
And I could think of other, less easy explanations.
EDIT: The game could start us as a non-N7 just as Mass Effect started us as a non-Spectre. We undergo/finish the N7 training and onward from there. As part of a narrative of starting off less than Shepard did when facing the Reapers.
The idea I had(and know full well it won't actually happen) based on how much they've been shoving the N7 thing down our throats is that the N7 program in Andromeda/on the Ark is the elite military arm of the expedition team/s. Our entire squad(human and alien) would be N7 because that's what the squad is. The team is made up of nothing but proven badasses. Except you. You stumbled your way into a promotion from a higher-up in the Ark program(you saved their life or something) and then inherited the leadership position of the team after the badass-of-all-badasses, Ryder, gets killed on the first mission in Andromeda. Now you're an N7 and leader in title only and have to prove yourself to everyone.
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